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So eto, eto, eto, eto. Yung mga interesado d'yan.
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Go for ano, Cloud Monster version ng on-shoes.
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Especially kung makahanap kayo ng sale edition. Nakahanap ko ng sale edition nun.
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So sobrang sulit yung Cloud Monster kasi sobrang lalim yung kanyang mga dun sa ilalim niya.
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So ang dami niyang snow na makakuha.
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So even if hindi ako gumamit ng icebreaker or snowpiercer, sapat na sapat yung shoes na yan.
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So very very good shoes. So I suggest go for Cloud Monster on.
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Yun po yung ginamit natin kahapon. Especially kung nakahanap po kayo ng...
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Wag magagag na yung mga usual stuff. Mga Adidas, Nike ganon. Go for Cloud Monster.
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Very good. Yung Cloud Monster version ng on ha.
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Hindi yung mga normal. Kasi yung iba may normal silang on na medyo flat version.
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Hindi siya masyadong maganda daw dun sa...
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Salamone na lang mas maganda daw.
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But yung Cloud Monster sobrang lalim. So pag kanyang mga pag tapak mo ng snow,
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Krrsh krrsh krrsh, you can hear talaga the crunch.
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So go for it. Anyway,
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siyempre hindi naman tayo travel vlogger per se but I'm looking at making a number of videos sana based dito sa mga
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ibang travels natin. Especially you know as a form of encouragement dun sa mga ibang kababayan natin na
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gusto you know to go to the frontiers of the world.
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At yung mga tao na gusto makita ng ano no? Yung mga
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people who want to see
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you know kasi hindi natin alam gaano katatagal to eh.
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Maybe in 50 years, 100 years wala na yung mga ibang icebergs dito.
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Greenland has the largest iceberg ice sheet overall in the world outside Antarctica
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and biggest in the northern hemisphere. So makikita mo talaga yung remnants ng ice age and deep into the horizon no?
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You peer deep into the horizon. It's like an abyss of frozen dunes no? So sobrang magical yan.
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So yun ang suggest ko sa inyo. So make sure if you come here you use
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icebreakers, mayroon kaming dala ng snowpiercer, icebreakers, whatever you want to call it.
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So very important yan. Pero certain parts na hindi masyadong icy and snowy,
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Cloud Monster on addition should do the trick right?
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Tinest ko yan talaga kahapon. It worked very very well.
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So yung Cloud Monster addition kasi nga yung mga flat addition hindi ganon ka ganda yata dito sa mga snow.
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It has to be the taller Cloud Monster addition naman. Anyway, yun yung suggestion ko dun sa mga gusto mag
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climb climb ng intense.
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Now as you know mga kamayto of course I would be happy to post nice pictures and all but
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well you know our heart goes to to all of the people are suffering right now
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in the Middle East. Ako sabi ko I don't care what's your color your creed or country
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when you know thousands of children are dying whether it's on this side of the border on that
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side of the border that's that's something that's gonna really really hurt us but I just felt it's
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not the right time to post yung mga imang pictures na and I tried to make um you know to make sure
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now we we get the best pictures possible but siguro medyo later pa natin yung post unti-unti
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because I'm just not in the state of mind. Actually last year nasa Europe din tayo back to
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back to pa ang dami ko muna hindi na post ng picture kasi nangyari yung giyera sa Ukraine.
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So parang you feel it's it's a bit insensitive no to to post about you know mga glamour shot feels
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uh when you know so much suffering and pain is happening especially when children and women
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are affected or elderly affected. Ibang usapan yan eh. Ibang usapan yan. Now going back to the
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Philippines obviously hindi ako nakapagpoto. Medyo malayo ata yung voting boots. I think nandun
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pa sa NUC sa kabila at best if not all the way back in Copenhagen. So unfortunately I was not able
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to vote. So here we have barangay elections. Now barangay elections are interesting because
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well in many ways ito yung microcosm ng ating politika. It gives us idea about the fundamentals
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of Philippine politics. It gives us ideas about the fundamental problems of the Philippine
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politics. So base sa mga reports na nakita ko kanina mga ilan po namatay. So a report that
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came out a few hours earlier said at least tatlo po ang namatay related dun sa barangay elections
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na nagaganap dyan sa Pilipinas. So you know dun pala nakikita mo na this is a microcosm of
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Philippine politics. Guns, goons, and gold. And I wonder you know if there are going to be some
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comprehensive reports about corruption etc. Atsaka yung mga sanggunian kapataan, SK
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Elections pa or kahit sa barangay elections level dun pala nakikita natin na andun na yung
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ugat ng problema. Yung mga sinasabi na batang-bata palang trapo na or barangay level palang
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parang malapresidente na yung kilos, yung mga the moves. At alam natin million-million dolyar na
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ngayon ang ginagastos pag tawatakbo sa barangay elections sa ibang lugar. So this is insane.
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This tells you that there's something fundamentally wrong talaga sa ating demokrasya.
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Because barangays are something unique to the Philippines. Because if you look at the Philippines
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prior to the arrival of European colonizers whether it's the Spanish, whether it's the Americans,
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or whether it's the Japanese at some point also colonizers, actually we had political entities,
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political institutions and polities pero relatively small size. And barangay of course
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comes from the word balangay and it will go back to yung story ng mga bangka na ginagamit ng ating
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ancestors roaming through seas and oceans. So a lot of us have DNAs that can be traced all the way
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to Madagascar. So our ancestors crossed the Indian Ocean all the way to places like the Philippines.
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Yung malayan roots natin can be traced all the way back to Madagascar. So for some of you who may
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have met people from Madagascar, I have a friend from Madagascar who's actually French,
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Paris-based. So you look at it, our ancestors went through oceans. And some of them went all
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the way to Hawaii and all the way to the other side of the Pacific near Chile. So we have amazing
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ancestors. So when China says that, oh thousands of years ago, I don't know, Admiral Zhang He was
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not even a Chinese, he was a Muslim, Central Asian, Persian person. And when they say, oh our
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ancestors roamed these areas, blah, blah, blah. Excuse me, no, our ancestors roamed the entire
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Indian and Pacific Oceans for thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of years. Kaya nga
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yung mga people similar to our DNA, malayan race, can be found all the way to actually here.
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All the way here, you can say perhaps mga Inuits related, not sa malayan race, but asiatic races.
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And all the way also of course to the Pacific Islands, to Guam. So we can have a long
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conversation about it. I really suggest you guys read the book, The Dawn of Everything. It's a
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pretty long book, a thousand page book, but it tells you a lot about archaeological and
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anthropological discoveries of the late, which helps you to appreciate things that put things
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into context. Now, meron akong isang interview, ehabol ko yung issue ng Philippine vote sa United
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Nations at saka yung approach natin sa Middle East. But before going there, speaking of Barangay,
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sabi ko nga, the best way to appreciate Tatay Digong's foreign policy is Barangay
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geopolitics. Yung kanyang pag-intindi sa nuances and sophistication of foreign policy
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ay ka-level ng isang Barangay official na wala pang napuntaan masyado around the world. May
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rami akong kilala na Barangay chairman na may mas maraming alam kay Tatay Digong. At mas
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sophisticated na maraming napuntaan sa mundo. Pero yung kay Tatay talaga ito yung parangay level
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lang. And speaking of how pang-barangay, yung kanyang politika was this. Yes, he was correct to
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raise questions about the Philippines' dependence on the US, pero nag-jump siya kaagad sa China at
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tignan natin ano nangyari sa mga proyekto ni Tatay Digong noong panahon niya. So six years. Six
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years si Digong sa power. He was promised 24 billion dollars of investments by China. He was
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promised multiple high-tech modern railways by China, including one in Mindanao and two others
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in Luzon area. We're talking about billions of dollars and wala, nada, zilch, nilch, nothing.
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Nothing happened. Nothing happened. Kaya nga sabi ko, mali yung mga kaibigan natin na iba na
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nagsasabi. Debt trap. Ang debt trap po yung mangyari kung may nangyari investment. Sa atin wala
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po nangyari. Pledge trap po yung nangyari. Puro pangako lang, purong pledge lang. Walang
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nangyari sa parte ng China pero si Tatay Digong ay purong ganyan-ganyan sa China. So eto po kanina
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si Transportation Secretary Bautista. Sabi niya itong mga projects estimated at 4.9 billion dollars
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ay officially wala na. Sabi niya, we have three projects that won't be funded by the Chinese
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government anymore. We can wait forever and it seems like China isn't that interested anymore.
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So wala na. Accordingly, the Marcos Jr. administration is looking for better deals
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proposed from Japan, Korea, Australia, or from the United States or the European Union,
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which also have a lot of experience with the high-tech infrastructure projects,
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and they provide interest rates that are way better than China. In China, interest rates are 3%,
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4% plus. Japan, interest rates nila mga point something, right? Under 1%. So much better terms,
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and of course, pagdating sa Japan, ang ganda ng quality. So masalamat kay Aquino, salamat kay
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Digong, at salamat kay BBM na at least yung subway project natin na led by Japan ay tuloy-tuloy na,
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and hopefully within two years, some of the new stations will open up. So yung mga susyal diyan na
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mga taga BGC, Makati, baka makikitan yung mga first stations na yan, and hopefully before the end
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of this decade, kompleto na yung subway made by Japan. I look forward to more railways in the
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Philippines made by Japan since mukhang wala nangyari dito sa China yan. In fact, ayon sa
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Philippine Senate, hindi lang itong tatlong railway projects ay medyo malala dahil sa sobrang
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palpak ni tatay mag-negotiate ng mga international deals. Yan kasi, amateur nga, yabang-yabang.
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That's what happens when you have iron will and yabang attached to little knowledge.
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It's a very, very bad combination. So dito, ayon kay Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, aside from dito
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sa mga palpak na China project na hindi na tuloy, six other projects under ODA have also been delayed.
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Sabi ni Sherwin Gatchalian, we convene an overnight oversight on ODA so I know that many of the ODA
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funded projects are delayed due to the implementation of the right of way and bidding.
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Consider the economics and if the benefit outweighs the cost, will it be cheaper and will
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the benefits be better? We need to balance it. That is never free. We need to pay for it.
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So the six projects funded under ODA by China are the Mindanao Railway Project, Tagum-Davao-Digos
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Segment, Closed Circuit Television Project in the cities of Marikina, Parañaque, Pasig, San Juan,
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and Valenzuela, New Centennial Water Source, Kaliwa Dam Project, Philippine National Railway South
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Long Haul Project, or the PNR-BICOL, Samal Island-Davao City Connector Project, and the Chico
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River Pump Irrigation Project. Ayan kay Gatchalian, we should study the ODA based on the economy,
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interest rates, and grace period. These are the important aspects. Geopolitics, that's just the
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third. Are there greater benefits when it comes to economic activities? Now, as of the Department
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of Finance earlier, nag-inform sila kay Chinese Ambassador Huang Shilian, ayan, dan pa siya,
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na yung Philippines request for ADA from China for P83 billion dun sa Mindanao Railway Phase 1
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was being pulled out. So, wala. It's over. Wala. Purong scam. And of course,
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mahabang usapan yan. We can have a different vlog about this, mga kameta. Of course, on the side
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of China, sasabihin nila, ang problema po ay hindi galing sa kanila. Ang problema po ay galing sa
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Pilipinas. Ang sinasabi po nila, you know, yung Philippines laws and regulations, yung right of
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way, sobrang komplikado. Yung right of expropriation ay komplikado. Tsaka, yung isa sa tama
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sinasabi ng mga ibang Chinese yan, ay napakakurakot yung mga counterparts nila sa Pilipinas.
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So, ito po yung project. Tapos, biglang iba na yung nagiging itsura ng project dahil daming gusto
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mga kung ano yung kalokohan. Especially, nangyari ito dati, diba? So, okay, I kinda see the argument
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of our pro-China friends or Chinese friends who are saying that actually ang problema sa Pilipinas
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side. But let's be also honest, hindi lang sa Pilipinas nangyari yan. All around the world,
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nangyakita natin na China makes billions of dollars of promises and really not much happens. Or
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when it happens, it's Chinese workers, Chinese technology, Chinese engineering, Chinese
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infrastructure, Chinese logistics. Alas walang participation in local countries tapos ang taas
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pa yung interest rates as we saw in Sri Lanka, as we saw in many, many countries. Also in Laos. Yung
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Laos mayabang sila kasi may speed railway sila. But there are big questions whether these are white
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elephant projects. Many of the other projects that China built in Africa. Now, having said that,
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that doesn't mean that necessarily maganda rin yung ginagawa ng ibang atbansa. Ang tanong ko
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ngayon ay nasaan ang US? Nasaan ang US? Nasaan yung mga infrastructure projects naman ang US
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sa Pilipinas? Japan? Okay, that's good. Pero hindi pwede na sasabihin ng US ay babash lang nila
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yung China pero wala silang replacement. So the question right now is what is the US
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and our Western partners gonna offer us now that essentially all of these tatay-era
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belt and road projects ay wala nang say-say. Dahil wala naman talaga say-say to begin with.
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But that shouldn't make us give easy pass to the other side because ano naman yung offer ng US
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sa atin? Now, so far in fairness, pagdating naman dito sa West Philippines issue, President Biden
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just the other day made it absolutely clear that the Philippines-US 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty
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will apply should there be an attack on our troops, personnel, et cetera, and that the US
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and Philippines will jointly, quote, defend themselves against external armed attack.
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So President Biden in a press conference said the other day, I say defense against the Philippines
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is ironclad. Any attack on the Philippine aircraft, vessels, or armed forces will invoke
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our Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines. So we will jointly defend ourselves against any
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external attack. Yun ang sinabi ni President Biden. So in short, tutulungan tayo pag if ever
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na kaya na escalation sa West Philippine Sea. Now, na kailangan tayo mahabang discussion like
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how is the US gonna be involved in three potential conflicts simultaneously, Ukraine-Israel
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conflict right now in Gaza, and also the West Philippine Sea. I have my doubts about it. I
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have raised some issues about it, but let's see. But so far, mga kameta, on the South China Sea,
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it looks like there's more reassurance from the US, but my tanong is this. Okay, na-exposed na,
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na medyo scammy, na pledge trap lang yung mga investment pledges ng China. Wala po nangyari,
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nakacancel lahat, walang funding, et cetera. And yung kalabuhan na yan, nangyari, and by the way,
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before Marcos made a decision on EDCA, which is in February of this year. August palang last year,
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alam natin wala nangyari sa mga projects na yan. So, this problem of China making pledges,
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empty pledges, precedes the EDCA decision by BBM. So, hindi natin pwede blame yan.
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But it's the same, as I always say, ano naman i-offer ng US sa Pilipinas when it comes to
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economic incentives and investments. Hindi pwede purong EDCA lang, purong mga weapons,
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military. Dapat may economic infrastructure investment ng Amerika, mga Europeo, yung mga
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ibang mansa. Hindi lang pwede mga Japon lang forever. Kasi limitado din ang kakayaan ng mga
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Japon, eh. But we'll discuss more about mga Japon this week. There'll be developments,
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don't worry. I know what I'm talking about. We'll talk about more Japan this week.
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You'll know why soon. But going back to this, mga kameta, eto talaga, eto talaga,
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na-expose talaga, pang barangay lang talaga yung foreign policy. Purong palpak. Purong palpak.
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Andami din na, billion-billion na sinabi niya, walang dumating. Cancelled na lahat. Walang
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nangyari. Ilan years na? 2016 pa lang pumunta sa China, 2023, mag-2024 na, wala pa rin nari.
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Alright, on that note, thank you very much mga kameta. Talk to you soon. Inaharap na ako
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dun sa kabila. Alright, kailangan natin ma-interview. Ayan na.
