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Mmm. Kapitaya para may energy. Energy in the house.

Ah. Nakakaproblema itong isang connection natin dito ah. Bakit ang bagal?

Eh.

Kameta!

Ayan na. Ayan na kong mga kapatid.

Mga kameta! Bululutuli tayo.

Ah. For some reason, itong connection natin hindi optimal sa laptop natin dito.

So, I'm using a different laptop lang kasi medyo nabibigatan tayo dun sa mga ibang laptops natin.

Kaya, I'm using a lighter one. But for some reason, hindi siya ganun ka lakas sa internet.

So, I don't know why. Baka siguro kailangan natin ng something like an iPad.

iPad siguro. iPad Pro or something. Anyway, we'll figure that out later on.

Ah. In the meantime,

maganda naman at least yung resolution natin.

Um. Okay. Ito ito ito mga kameta. Kamusta kayo dyan? I hope you're having a good weekend.

Of course, uh, sobrang busy tayo over the past week. Marami tayong pinag-usapan.

Pinag-usapan po natin, uh, among other things, yung, uh, paglaya.

Finally free si Senator Laila Dalima.

Uh, well, we are, um, we are currently trying to arrange an interview with Senator Dalima sometime next week.

Uh, based dun sa schedules natin. I'm sure.

You have seen interviews of, uh, Senator Dalima on other channels, including on other YouTube channels, among others.

But, uh, as you know, I mean, I and Senator Dalima, in one way or another, you know, we have been in touch with her.

I've been in touch with her office. I've written her letters.

She, she, she also forwarded many things to me.

We had a chance to talk to each other before when, uh, she was in detention.

So, you know, and, and as you see, you know, on her page, you can see many times that, you know, they also shared some of the articles that they wrote about her case.

And, you know, uh, as critical as I have been of opposition and all, I think Senator Dalima has been one of the most, uh, uh, impressive ones out there.

And so, one of the persons that I always felt was, was the right role model for what an opposition leader should look like.

Indipende pa safe, independe pa cute, dapat palaban.

And, and, and that's one thing that we saw with Senator Dalima and has always, um, been a great source of inspiration.

Now, obviously, no one is perfect.

We can discuss about a lot of things, but I think she's the closest that comes to, uh, you know, the closest that we can get.

When it comes to some sort of political martyrdom and, and fighting for, uh, democratic, uh, Philippines is concerned, no?

Um, just a couple of things.

Pasensya na, kasi I don't know about my, my internet connection and all.

So, I just wanted to make a short intervention here before heading to my other, um, activities.

In fact, while nandito pa tayo out of town, I've been trying my best to do something different.

So, uh, walang production team.

So, I'm essentially on my own.

And I've been trying to, um, set up.

Uh, I've been trying to set up, uh, some lectures, uh, something very different, no?

So, yung iniisip natin, mga kameta, is, um, if we can, uh, you know, I was thinking something different from politics, no?

Something different from politics.

Something that is, uh, something that is more reflective of the full range of things that, that keeps us interested.

So, I'm just taping and on my own.

I mean, no, no production.

I'm just relying on lighting system, no makeup, nothing.

Um.

So, at a full range of things.

On stoicism, on Edward Said, on orientalism, on toxic masculinity, on politics and political analysis and democratic activism.

So, I'm just recording a couple of, uh, lecture types and hoping later on magawa rin natin ng mga shorts out of that.

Some long lectures and shorts out of that.

So, been working on that over the past few days and all.

Kaya ang dami-dami natin nadala ng mga iba't iba mga costumes and coats and all.

Uh, hindi pa tayo.

Hindi pa tayo pupunta sa kasal sa mga ano yan.

Sa mga lecture taping yan.

So, I, I, I, I, I sincerely hope that you guys will appreciate it once those are, those lecture types come out.

Please support.

Please encourage.

Because in the West, you know, usually what they do is they have a Patreon account.

So, you know, some, you know, like Jordan Peterson type of guy gives a lecture and then, you know, raises thousands of dollars in Patreon.

And that makes, is time worth it, right?

Uh, because hindi pa madali gumawa ng mga lecture type, uh, vlogs, you know.

Because it takes years of scholarship.

It takes a lot of, uh, familiarity with the literature.

But, and also, it takes a lot of effort to record them and make sure na medyo maayos ayos.

Although, again, low budget version yung ginawa natin.

Now, uh, let's go to the latest news na meron tayo.

So, mukhang hindi natuloy ang meeting, after all, ni Marcos Jr. and Musk, Elon Musk.

So, the Marcos-Musk meeting did not happen.

Uh, I was just checking in terms of updates on the APEC.

So, I wrote a piece.

So, I wrote a piece or two about, um, you know, what's up with the APEC summit, the big meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping.

Now, as you know, the meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping was very important because yung dalawang higante na yan have been flirting with one kind of conflict or the other.

And things have been pretty tricky for the two, uh, countries in the past few months.

Barely any kind of institutionalist dialogue.

Uh, so, walang masyadong, uh, you know, pag-uusap, ano.

And sabi nga ni Churchill, di ba, better always jaw-jaw than war-war.

And we have had more of world wars than, than, than direct dialogue and conversation between two superpowers.

So, some semblance of dialogue between two superpowers have been, uh, re-established.

Now, interestingly, hindi na karoon ng meeting between, uh, Marcos and, uh, and Biden.

So, some people thought, thought maybe that's some sort of a snob na because Biden wants to patch it up a little bit with, with Xi Jinping.

Ayaw niya mag-meet kay Marcos because Marcos is kind of anti-China right now.

I don't think that's, I don't think that's true.

I think that's exaggerated.

I think Marcos himself is looking for something new, something different.

Hindi lang mga meeting about military and all.

And that's why nag-arrange sila.

He and a number of other people in San Francisco on the sidelines of the Apex Summit.

Nag-arrange sila ng meeting with tech titans and potential big investors.

Because I think Marcos Jr. also realizes that hindi pwede purong military, purong EDCA, mga gano'n.

Not to mention may risk yung mga gano'n, no.

But no choice tayo.

Binuli tayo ng six years.

Tatay geopolitics.

Parang gay geopolitics.

Hindi gumana.

So we have to do something different.

But our relationship with the United States cannot be just about military.

It cannot be just EDCA.

It cannot be just about China.

It has to be also about investment in the Philippines.

And in that, you know, in that spirit, essentially, Marcos arranged a meeting with Elon Musk.

So actually, what happened is that hindi natuloy.

So over Twitter, actually, sinabi ni Marcos na may nakaroon ng missed opportunity because the two were supposed to meet.

So in an interview with reporters, sabi ni Marcos Jr. na ito ay missed opportunity because Elon Musk could not attend because he fell ill.

He was supposed to come here in San Francisco.

Marami siyang ka-meeting dapat dito pero binalitaan kami na nakasakit nga.

So in English, he was supposed to meet with a lot of people including leaders but we were informed that he got sick.

Kaya wala muna.

So no meeting for now which is a missed opportunity.

I was really looking forward to it but we'll find ways to get to meet him.

Again, sometime in the future.

Of course, the chairman, CEO and CTO of American spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX.

In addition to, of course, the owner of Twitter, now known as X, and also the owner of Tesla.

We have had much to discuss with him in terms of the technologies that we would like for Tesla, for example, to bring to the Philippines.

Specifically, battery technology, even the manufacture of fully electric vehicles.

All of these things that we're hoping to be part of in the future.

So President Marcos Jr. was hoping to discuss.

Tesla production, not just Tesla imports.

Kasi kakabukas lang yung Tesla shop dyan sa ETSA yata, no?

I mean, good luck with that.

Ang ganda-gandang kotse mo.

Wala, ang mahal naman ang electricity, ang good luck naman sa traffic and all of that.

So, let's see what's up there.

Now, I mean, as I said, hindi tayo dapat hanggang consumerist-consumerist lang tayo.

We have to actually work towards producing electric vehicles or at least being part of the production processes because EVs are the future.

In fact, they're almost the present in many parts of the world.

You go to Scandinavia, you go to Denmark, you go to many countries, they're almost fully electric or at least yung mga public transportation nila fully electric, you know, whatever car it is, no?

So, well, the leader in the industry is Elon Musk and that's why we wanted to see him.

We still want to see him and so we'll find an opportunity to do that as soon as we can, no?

Aside from meetings with Musk, President Marcos was also meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau also did not push through.

Hindi na tuloy, I didn't push through because what happened was the session yesterday ran very late.

I think we came out of the one hour behind schedule.

So, two-week meetings did not push through.

Nevertheless, President Marcos Jr. managed to meet Vice President Kamala Harris.

Of course, they discussed the South China Sea.

Kamala Harris was, of course, in Manila last November also to discuss South China Sea.

In fact, pumunta siya sa Palawan and if I'm not mistaken, she boarded the Filipino Coast Guard vessel.

Nag-meeting din, mga kalatino natin, nag-meeting din with Peruvian President Dina Buloarte

who invited Marcos Jr. to Peru for the 31st.

APEC meeting as well as to mark the 50th year of bilateral relations between the Philippines and Peru,

yung mga Peruvian.

So, hopeful in the future, mga kameta, mag-Latin America, Peru, Lima tayo.

Lima. So, yan.

Don't worry, yung interview natin ni Senator De Lima, try natin i-arrange pero ito, Lima, Peru.

Dami mga Michelin star ano dyan.

Ganda nun, diba?

And President Marcos likewise had a pull-aside meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping

where they talked about the recent tensions in the West Philippines.

So, in fairness naman,

si President Marcos Jr. is also trying to have a conversation with his Chinese counterpart.

And he likewise also met with TikTok CEO Xu Zichu

to discuss how to use the platform to help small businesses in the Philippines.

So, just a quick side.

Nag-meeting si Xi Jinping and BBM.

And in fact, the meeting was quite cordial, quite friendly.

Smiley-smiley yung dalawa na yan.

Because actually, President Xi Jinping of China has been on a kind of,

charm offensive tour.

He met Governor Newsom of California.

They had a fantastic conversation together.

His meeting with Biden was not too bad.

Quite friendly, given everything.

And then, he also on the sides at meeting with other world leaders.

Very friendly.

And of course, also with Marcos Jr., no?

So, President Marcos dun sa discussion niya with China said that

yung West Philippines issue is still a work in progress

after his meeting with President Xi Jinping.

This was a pull-aside meeting.

So, it was not a full bilateral summit meeting.

But at least, President Marcos said that he voiced to President Xi Jinping

yung concern natin and some of the incidents that were happening

between Chinese vessels, Philippine vessels,

culminating in actual collisions we have seen before.

And hopefully, to find ways to avoid that and ways to move forward from this situation.

So, he likewise told President Xi Jinping that he wanted to go back to the situation

where, quote, Filipinos and the Chinese were fishing together.

So, some sort of joint fisheries agreement

is something that's still being considered by President Marcos.

Okay, Marcos.

We were in agreement that the problems that we have in the South China Sea with China

should not be the defining element of our relationship.

But nonetheless, the problems remain.

And it is something that we need to continue to communicate

to find ways to avoid such incidents.

Ironclad President Marcos yung meeting na manya with Kamala Harris

also focused on these issues.

And President said that he wanted to get Xi's view of the ongoing tensions

and discuss ways to bring down the temperature

to not escalate the situation in the West Philippine Sea.

And we'll put all of these together.

So, we'll be able to strategize for the near future

and what the Philippines' role will be, or what,

is the proper Philippine role in the West Philippine Sea.

So, you could see, medyo tortured yung language.

There's an effort to find a common ground.

But things are going to get more interesting in the coming months

because President Marcos Jr. is likely headed to

Indo-Pacific Command sa Hawaii, no?

Indo-Pacific Command of United States.

I think no foreign leader has done that in recent memory.

So, that would be quite something.

But at least there's an effort to find a kind of a common ground with China,

or at least to say in the Ayanam and Anguera,

kung may problema dito, ito ay dahil doon sa mga bubuli na nangyari.

So, hopefully, the bullying goes down and then find a way forward.

Now, doon naman sa conversation niya with Kamala Harris, Sabine Marcos,

she was very interested to know what her assessment was

on the situation in the West Philippine Sea.

And I just went through the basic facts of the matter,

what happened in the past few months.

We tried to discuss some of the ways forward.

And I think that, generally speaking, especially after my meeting with President Xi,

which I'm going to have sometime today, this is before,

after that, we'll put together the way forward.

So, in fairness, you could see, President Marcos,

Jr. is talking to the Chinese leader, talking to Kamala Harris,

trying to find a way forward.

It's torture, it's difficult.

But it's important to have those kind of conversation

para hindi mukhang tayong nagaanap ng trouble

because that's the unfortunate thing, no?

Meron tayong mga kapitbahay na they try to make it look...

Hayaan na nyo yung mga troll na yan?

Pagbigyan nyo yan, kailangan kumita mo yan,

paubos na yung ano na. Wala na silang fund eh, no?

That's just, alam nyo yan.

Anyway, I'm just going to be quick about this kasi

you know, this is the weekend na

and I want everyone to rest.

So, overall, you know, the APIC summit was like okay lang.

At least, you know, there was an effort to reach out to Xi Jinping.

There was an effort to see how things move forward with China

and also with the US, how we can get the best help possible.

The meeting with Elon Musk didn't push through

but at least there was an effort to move on that front

and look at how the Philippines can become an investment destination.

It's not going to be easy.

We have to create the right conditions for that.

I mean, both in terms of getting high-quality investment

and also in terms of getting things right with China and the United States,

this is not going to be easy.

Kaya dapat tuloy-tuloy itong mga diplomas na ito.

Overall, I think that was an important and necessary visit by President Marcos

and given everything, I don't think he did too bad.

I think he's on the right track in terms of reaching out

and let's see what will be the follow-through efforts.

But watch out also for Marco Jr. visiting Hawaii soon

to talk to the Pentagon on ways to push ahead

with ETCA in ways that will enhance the Philippines' national interest.

Important thing here is, our red line is clear,

both to the United States and also to China,

and, accordingly, we push for a national interest.

In the meantime, sana

we do also what is necessary so that the Philippines

becomes an attractive investment destination.

On that note, thank you very much again, mga kamenta.

So I have to go back to ang mga other,

other stuff na ginagawa natin.

You know, I'm just looking at doing things differently

and hopefully our internet connection will be better

in the future.

future occasions.

I don't know what's going on here

dito sa internet natin,

dito sa Baguio.

But hopefully,

we'll move in the right direction.

Right?

And we want to diversify our content

and what we get out there

and also have to set up,

you know,

to make sure we get the shorts

and everything out there.

Anyway,

this is the best we can do

under the given circumstances.

I hope you guys appreciate it.

Thank you very much again

for everyone who has been

constantly with us.

Try ko makatch up

with Lola

before I get back home again.

So, thank you.

Maraming salamat.

So, over the past week,

ang dami natin na-arrange.

I'm extremely grateful

na-arrange natin yung interviews

with...

Nagawa na natin yung RRL,

Ronald,

Ricardo,

and...

Ronaldo, Ricardo,

and Lisandro.

I think that was a very important one.

I'm also very glad na natuloy

kahit papano

despite all the difficulties

yung interviews natin

with Sunny Africa

about Philippine economy,

economics,

and economic analysis,

among others.

So, please check

those things out.

Ina-upload natin sa YouTube.

Ina-upload din natin

yung mga ibang videos dito

para naman makita nyo

yung mga guwapo natin,

mga guests,

mga tininatin guests.

Kasi mga...

Ano lang eh.

Itong version na nakikita nyo

when I interviewed them.

So, the finalist version.

Please check that out.

Thank you very much again.

Have a blessed,

blessed, blessed weekend.

Have a blessed

Sabbath day tomorrow.

Thank you very much

for your constant support.

And, yeah.

Please, please.

Pray lang, support lang

para gawin natin

yung mga kailanganan.

Ano natin gawin?

Para sana naman

magkarantayan natin

itong mga magagandang

diskusyon at mga talakayan.

Para naman, you know,

medyo mag-next level

naman yung discussion natin.

Hindi lang mga purong

pang barangay level

geopolitics

or purong mga marites lang.

We want to do

a little bit better than that.

In the meantime,

kung gusto nyo nyo

ma-harley ka,

gusto nyo mag-troll,

bahala kayo.

Buhay na yan.

Alright?

On that note,

thank you very much

and talk to you soon.

God bless.

And have a blessed

Sabbath and weekend

with your family and loved ones.

Salamat po.

Salamat po.