Policemen use shields to protect themselves from activists during a violent dispersal of a protest rally in front of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, the Philippines, Oct. 19, 2016. Thousands of Moro and indigenous people trooped to the U.S. Embassy to support the President Rodrigo Duterte's "independent foreign policy" and call for the abolition of the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United States. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)