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Ayan na, ayan na, kumusta kayo dyan mga kamets?

Mga kameta, ayan, habang meron pa tayong konting postpaid pa

Dahil lang hirap mag, ah, 50-100 pesos nga gcash lang, hindi na masasend sa atin

I don't know, I mean, my goodness

At ito, alam mo guys, ah, real talk tayo

Before tayo pupunta dito sa topic natin ng China

At pagbubuli sa Pilipinas, yung threat na naman nila sa atin

Kasi, yun nga eh, how are we gonna stand up to the bullies all around the world

Kung we're not doing our own assignment at home, no?

Eto, eto, eto yung isa sa mga pinakamalaking frustration ko mga kamets, ah

Um, anong gumagano?

Oh, anong palit?

Anyway, eto kasi mga kameta, no?

Eto ang parati kong problema

You know, gusto mong lumabas sa Manila

Para hindi ka ma-stress dun sa traffic sa Manila

Hindi ka ma-stress dun sa lifestyle sa Manila

Ang problema naman, paglabas mo na Manila

Ang laki ng problema sa basic infrastructure

Signal palang problema na

Internet palang problema na

Eh, sa ganitong, sa panahon natin ngayon

It's almost impossible to get anything done kung hindi matin yung internet

Lalong-lalong na kung katulad nyo

Kung trabaho niya katulad ko, diba, na digital nomad

I heard that term, it's a very woke, trying, hardish term

But, you know, yung mga people, no?

Who need to be constantly on the move and constantly produce

Content creators

Anyway, yung mga terms na ayay-ayay ako

Hindi tayo content creator, may mga expertise po tayo

Na pag-aralan po natin yung mga bagay-bagay na sinasabi natin, no?

Tinuturo po natin ito sa mga iba't-ibang universidad all around the world

Now, anyway, balikan natin itong issue na ito

Eto kasing, etong frustration ko mga kameta, no?

Parati na sinasabi, okay, kung stress ka, labas ka ng Manila

Ang problema ng pag lumabas ka ng Manila

Yung mga kalsada, yung mga infrastruktura

Ang dami mga nakaka-dismaya

So, while tanggap ko na pagdating sa cost of living

Mas maganda talaga pag lumabas ka ng Manila

Kasi napaka-mahal

I mean, Manila is a very overpriced place, no?

Napaka-mahal ang presyo ng mga bilihin, ng rent, ng everything, no?

Kumpara doon sa kalidad ng mga servisyon na nakuha natin

But, pag labas mo naman sa Manila

Mas mababa yung gastos

Mas less stressful

Siguro ang buhay for other people

But for people like me, mas stressful

Pag nasa labas ako ng Manila

Dahil yung mga basic infrastructure ay nawala doon

Kanina nga, may pinuntahan kami na napakagandang restaurant dito

Great Wall Cafe

Puntahan niyan, sa Tuba yan, dito sa Baguio

Malapit sa Loakan Airport

Napakagandang lugar

Ayayayayayay

Yung papunta dyan, yung mga kalsada

Parang pupunta ka ng, ano

Wala na, parang malayo ka na sa kabias na

And to consider, this is not too far from, you know

From the city, city proper

And I'm talking about a city which is one of the most developed in the country

In fact, if you look at the Human Development Index, HDI

Yung region namin, hindi ako nagyayabang

But the region of Benguet is the most developed in the entire country

In terms of, you know, hindi lang average income

But in terms of life expectancy, in terms of education, etc

So on an average, you know, at saka yung agwat ng wealth ay hindi ganon kalayo

So, if dito, sa ganitong lugar, ay misa nagkakaroon tayo ng napakadaming frustration

Sa availability of water, internet connection and all

You know, I don't want to be judgmental

But this is just, it's just more a matter of compassion

I can imagine yung mga basic infrastructure and all

Could be far more problematic in other parts of the country

Now, bakit tayo dapat may pake sa nangyayari sa loob ng bansa natin?

Well, obviously, because this affects our lives

This affects our lifestyle

This affects the experience of going around the country

The ability to experience

Sa kanila lang, nalaman ko na

May mga direct flights na ginagawa from Philippines, Manila to Danang in Vietnam

Remember mga kameta, meron tayong mga vlogs nung nandun ako sa Danang, Vietnam

For a conference, you know, about economic and trade integration in Asia

And sabi ko, napaka-impressive itong lugar na ito

Kasi I've been going to Vietnam regularly over the past decade or so

And I've seen the tremendous development of the area

But let's be honest, it's not a white sand beach

The natural beauty of Danang is nowhere close to what we have in Palawan, in Siargao

What we have in Boracay

So we have very, we're very blessed with very beautiful nature

Including, of course, dito sa Cordilleras region

Napakaganda rin yung mga, ng nature natin

But, you have to make something out of it

Hindi pwede yung we're just resting on the laurels of our natural heritage

In the same way na hindi tayo pwede nagre-rest lang dun sa laurels

Ng ating, you know, English-speaking colonial legacy

Yan ang problema natin, parang ito ko sinasabi

Isa sa mga daylan ng Pilipinas ay hindi masenso masyado

Ay hindi lang dahil sa mga katrapuhan ng mga politikos natin

Which, by the way, can be traced back also to the colonial era

Because one of the biggest mistakes of Americans

So, ito, ito, ito, isa pang real talk

One of the most annoying experiences I always have

Is some random American gringo guy coming and giving lectures about

Oh, this is how you should run your country, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

Yung mga iba pa, mayroon, they have the audacity to even say

Dapat you should have stayed as our colony or something like that

My thing always to my gringo friends is like

Wait, wait, wait, wait

You guys, you had half a century of almost direct colonization

We can talk about the indirect colonization later on

But you didn't have the audacity, you didn't have the foresight

Of doing land reform and getting rid of Spanish-era trapos

Spanish-era dynasties, principalities

You know, I can name you many political dynasties in the Philippines today

That can trace back to the late 19th century under the Spanish

So, the Americans, one of the biggest problem with them is that

Palpak yung kanilang state dynasty

They didn't have a building project in the Philippines

And one of the biggest failures of the Americans

When they were colonizing the Philippines was

They did not, you know, they did not redistribute land

They did not make sure na hindi man dominate ng economies

And political institutions natin ng mga old Spanish-era principalities

Ito yung mga collaborators, essentially

Yung mga comprador, no?

So, once the Americans opened, you know, the political system

To a certain degree of democratic contestation

Guess sino mga nananalo ng senado, kongreso, mga ganyan?

Landed elite, the same trapos from the Spanish era

And they continue up until today, a lot of them

So, you have a lot of political dynasties in the Philippines

That go all the way back to the Spanish era

And then nadagdag pa ng mga bago, mga parvenus and all

So, please lang, dun sa mga ating mga gringong kaibigan

Bago kayo mag-lecture sa Pilipinas

Sit down in my lectures about, you know, this trajectory

Of how things went wrong for the Philippines

And how neither of our colonial, you know, our colonizers

Where the Spanish are and the Americans are not

The Americans got some of the basics of state and nation building right

Now, you don't believe me?

Read, for instance, books by Francis Fukuyama

Or on, for instance, yung isang book niya na, you know

Political Order and Political Decay

Or look at the works of Paul Hodgecroft

And a lot of great political scientists

A lot of American political scientists

Who notice ano yung mga palpak ng kanilang colonization process

In fact, Americans don't even want to call it colonization

Now, having said all of those things

Actually, bilang isang

Cordillera person

I mean, of course, ilokana kami

But, you know, because I'm from Baguio

In fairness naman, mga Amerikano

One of the good things they introduced, at least in this part of the world

In the Cordillera region

Was good education system

And a certain degree of egalitarian ethics

Ethos, for that matter

So, I think it's in the Cordillera region

Where you see much more positive impact of American colonization

But the Americans really didn't touch, you know, yung

The foundations

Yung broken, rotten

You know, trapo foundations

Of the Philippine political economy

That was carried over from the Spanish era

But anyway

Why am I talking about all of these things?

Because

How are we gonna fight for our rights?

Diba?

Diyan sa West Philippine Sea

How are we gonna get the respect of other countries?

Right?

If we do not get some of the basic things in our country right?

How are we gonna be respected by a rising superpower?

Right?

A rising superpower that has a lot of ethnocentrism

Right?

Just look at how people in that country talk about other people, right?

Or if not people in that country

Like look at how their newspaper talk about, you know

Other rising powers like Indians or

Or how do they

Look at how they talk about, you know

The supposed them being middle kingdom and all that blah blah blah

I mean, seriously

I mean, like China was not the greatest civilization

Nor were they the greatest empire

They were one of the greats, sure

But they were never the greatest, you know

I can name you many other empires that were just as amazing or

I mean, have you guys been to Egypt?

You know, like these guys had pyramids 4,000-6,000 years ago

The Great Wall of China is barely over what?

1,000 years ago?

I mean, you go to the Middle East

Forget about Greece and all

You go to the Middle East, you can find monuments from 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 years ago

Right?

And so, you know, I never understood why some people think China is the greatest

No, they're not

They're just one of the guys

Anyway

Speaking of which

My thing is, if we do not get our act together

Sa loob ng Pilipinas

Kung ganyang kalaki yung agwat ng development sa loob ng bansa

Kung ganito kasabog yung ating state institutions

Kung ganito ka-problematic yung internal politics natin

Kung ganong ka-dominated ng political institutions natin

Ng mga trapos

A lot of them going all the way to the Spanish era, right?

Some of them are not even Spanish-blooded but they have Spanish affectations

Now, you don't want to believe me

Read the book

Actually, long essay

Kasika Democracy by Benedict Anderson

A lot of these pseudo-Spanish names that we have are actually not Spanish

A lot of them came from another Asian country

And then pa-affect sila ng Espanyol na old rich but they're not

Anyway

My problem is, wala tayong laban dyan sa West Philippine Sea

Kung hindi rin natin ang using yung sarili ng ating bansa

If we don't undertake some of the basic fundamental changes

That we need to institute inside our country

Napaka mahalaga yan mga ka-men

We need to really get that right

Now, speaking of China

Recently, dahil of course mahala-mahal nilang ang Pilipinas

Mahala-mahal nilang peace and harmony and freedom and all of that

Ito yung sinabi ng China

China is always committed to resolving differences through dialogue and consultation

And making joint efforts to maintain maritime stability

Maraming salamat

But we will not turn a blind eye towards the Philippines' repeated provocation and harassment

Kalain niyo ba?

Tayo pang nagpa-provoke sa China

Tayo pang nag-aaral sa China

Ayan ito sa China spokesman

Yung the Philippines resupply mission dyan sa Ayunginsol

Which by the way is a low tide elevation

It's not a territory

It's a low tide elevation within the Philippines exclusive economic zone

Within the Philippines continental shelf

So sarili na natin bakuran yan

Our resupply dun sa sarili natin bakuran

China consider this as a quote deliberate move to create an incident play victim and make a show

Well sir, speaking of playing victim

I know a country which is the second largest country on earth by population

But they were the largest last year

I know a country that is the second largest economy in the world

They have more than 1 billion people

But they talk about themselves as if we're still in the 100 years of humiliation era

Opium wars era of 19th century

Speaking of playing victim

We can have a long conversation about pa-victim effect of giant superpowers

Who cry foul about NATO expansion

Or US bullying

And then they're bullying their own neighbors

In one case invading smaller neighbor

Quite recently

At of course very dismissive itong statement ng China

Ukol dun sa

Dun sa mga

We expose yung mga bullying and all of that

Ang statement ng China is that

This is purely false hype

So nagpo false hype lang daw tayo

Nagdrama lang tayo

Drama drama

Drama drama

Chanel Chanel

Sabi nga ni Maharlika

The Philippine side in disregard of repeated warnings from the Chinese side

Insisted on sending vessels to intrude into the adjacent waters of China's Renai Jiao

And provocatively ram a Chinese coast guard vessel and cause scratch

Let me be absolutely clear

There's no basis to China's claims in the area

Their 9-9, 10-9 is a complete joke per modern prevailing international law

Hindi ko alam kung anong Recto Bank

Ay sorry Recto University

Di Recto Bank sa atin yun pero yung Recto University

Hindi ko alam saan nila kinakuha itong mga Doctrine Doctrine

Alam natin saan nila nakuha

This actually goes back to after the collapse of the Chinese Empire in the early 20th century

And when the country was going through this period of immense instability and humiliation

So some of their nationalist cartographers came up with mumbo jumbo maps

And that's yun yung source ng 9-9 or actually 11-9

Because it covers all sa Pratas and Gulf of Tonkin

And then later on this was adopted by Kuomintang

Who later on go to Taiwan

These are the nationalists

And then this was essentially plagiarized and copy pasted by the Maui's communist forces later on

So yun yung source ng this whole 9-10 dash line mumbo jumbo na yan

So ayon sa China lahat ng mga sinasabi natin tungkol sa kanilang bullying ay false hype

Groundless accusations

So wala silang nagawang mali

Wala silang nagawang mali

Lahat ng ginagawa nila tama tayong mali

At ang mali natin mga kamets is

We are resupplying our own people inside our own backyard

Alright, again again

Ayong insyo ko sa 2nd Dimensional is a low tide elevation

Per Arbitral Tribunal Award of 2016

Which was under the aegis of the United Nation Convention Law of the Sea

Under Article 287 Annex 7

And it was never up to China to determine the jurisdictional issue

It was up to the court to determine whether this was a jurisdictional issue

And the jurisdictional issue was

Firmly resolved when the court made it clear

That this was not about territorial disputes

But maritime disputes

Sovereign rights

And more importantly

This was about the determination of the nature of disputed land features

So those legal nuances are very very important

So huwag kayong magpautoto dun sa mga biglang West Philippine Sea expert na

Diba yung si Atty. Poon ba yan?

Yung mga magagaling dyan

Yung mga biglang expert na

Alright

Ito ito ito ito ito ito

Now

But you know

Despite everything I've said a while ago

Which of course are

All are based on facts

And based on very

You know

Nuance understanding of history

Let me tell you one thing

Kasi kanina iniisip ko talaga

Ng mabuti ito eh

At sabi ko

Bakit ang Chinese sobrang overreact

Of course when you talk about China

We're not talking about Chinese people

Or fantastic people

We have nothing against Chinese people

Chinese nation

They're fantastic people

People with Chinese background

Obviously not against our fellow

Brothers and sisters who are

You know

So no

We're talking about just certain policies of the Communist Party in China

They have some policies which internationally are kinda okay

Because they balance out also the bullying from the West

I have no problem with some of them

But I have a serious problem with the West Philippine Sea claim

And the bullying situation in the West Philippine Sea

So I always you know

Hindi tayo hater

We make a distinction here

Case to case basis

But going back to this

And obviously you still don't wanna live in a totalitarian system

You know

That they have

Anyway

Going back to this

You know

Nung iniisip ko ng mabuti ito

In a way naintindihan ko bakit ganyan yung reaction ng China eh

There is both a tactical operational aspect to this

There is also a psychological and strategical aspect to this

Right

So the tactical operational is kinda easy to grasp

Ganito ang reaction ng China dahil ayaw nila na ang Pilipinas ay magpalakas ng kanyang position dyan sa West Philippine Sea

Because they rather have the Philippines and other rival claimant states in the area

They would rather have them remain in a weak position

Because the more they remain in a weak position

Diplomacy

Code of conduct

Code of conduct negotiations

All that blah blah blah

Just essentially enables, facilitates and legitimizes the situation

So China always wants to have that tactical operational superiority over other countries

So when Vietnam for instance tries to also do its own mini version of militarization

Or Malaysia tries to push ahead with unilateral exploration

Blah blah blah

China responds

But

That still doesn't answer you the other question

Which is

Bakit parang yung reaction ng China sa Pilipinas

Ay medyo mas bully

Kaysa yung reaction nila sa ginawa for instance ng Malaysia

Which is to completely ignore China's repeated warnings and maritime Malaysia deployments to the South China Sea

When Malaysia, the Petronas, West Capella, yung oil drilling platform

Pushed ahead with unilateral exploration of oil and gas in the area

Ang ang basa ko dito is

Well partly it has to do with of course

Bilateral direct diplomacy that these countries have with China

But it also has to do something with the fact that bilateral diplomacy

In the Philippines has gone very wrong

And not under BBM

But actually under the former president

Sa aking palagay

Yung isa sa pinakamalaking dahilan

If not, ito yung pinakamalaking dahilan

Na ganitong ka-OA

Eh tawagin natin yan na

Paka-OA yung response ng China sa atin

We're just doing what we have been doing for a long time

Which is just resupplying our troops there

My goodness, i-google nyo yan

Yung mga tropa natin dyan

Yung Sierra Madre na pinark natin dyan sa Ayung Insol

More than 20 years na po yan

Panon pa ni Arap yan

So bakit ngayon sobrang nag-overreact ng China?

Ang aking basa dito is

A lot of that is psychological

And a lot of that is

Because

Yung isang bully dyan ay na-spoil

Ay na-spoil

Nung dati nating presidente

Because it looks like

We have to yet confirm it

Yung nakaraan na presidente natin na

I love China

China will protect me, China

Yung mayor-president na Al Jetski there

And then nung naging presidenta

Biglang iba ng inip ng hangin

Yung make us a province of China

Pa-joke-joke na napaka-inappropriate

Or was it really a joke?

Yung presidente na yan

Dahil sa mga ginawa niyang ganyan

Dahil sa kanyang subservience

Dahil sa kanyang napaka-slavish na rhetoric

Dahil sa kanyang passivity

In face of repeated aggressions throughout those years

Parang ang nangyari dyan is

Nasanay yung isang bully dyan

Now whenever they do any bullying thing

There will be no significant reaction or resistance

So nasanay sila Sudan

And in fact, naalala ko

Nung 2020 ate yan diba

Nung daming nag-alit na naman sa China

Dahil sa nangyari sa Whitsun Reef

At sa Juan Felipe Reef

Even si Manny Pacquiao ay nag-alit nun diba

You have a situation whereby

You have a situation whereby

The president will take the side of China

So even when you have senators

Civil society groups

Congressmen

Or whoever who has some basic sense of patriotism

Comes out and criticizes China

You have a president who immediately will take the other side

Right?

So you had this situation before mga kameta

This was the

This was the

Ah

This was essentially the status quo

For year after year after year after year

So dahil nasanay

Yung isang bully dyan sa West Philippine Sea

Sa ganyan kalakaran sa Manila

At nag-expect sila

Na tuloy-tuloy yung kanilang ligaya

After the 2022 elections

Dahil natalo si Lenny

Natalo si Lacson

Natalo si Pacquiao

Lahat ng mga matapang

Sa West Philippine Sea issue

Ay natalo last year in last year's elections

Diba?

Tignan nyo

Tignan yung mga statements ng presidential candidates last year

Matapang ang statements ni Lacson

Matapang ang statements ni Pacquiao

Matapang yung statements ni Lenny Robredo

Ang hindi lang matapang na statements laban sa China

With some slight exception

Dahil dun sa SMNI debate

Biglang may konting ano

Si BBM

Si BBM lang yung pinaka mabait

Yung mga statements niya okul sa China

And very skeptical towards the United States

Of course

What China did not realize is that

Ibang presidential elections

At iba yung real governance

And once you become president

Things could change

But more importantly

What they missed

Is that the Marcoses are not the same as Dutertes

And particularly

BBM doesn't think like Degong

And BBM doesn't think like Sara

BBM thinks more like his father

Marcos Senior

When it comes to the West Philippine Sea issue

And let's not forget

Marcos Senior was extremely assertive

Pagdating sa West Philippine Sea issue

He was the Filipino President

That made sure

We have those facilities

Yung mga pasilidad na nakita natin sa pag-asa

1970s pa yan

Panon ni Marcos yan

At yung panon ni Marcos

Doon tayo nagkaroon ng international efforts

Kung saan nagsama-sama yung mga archipelagic states

Island nations

In the Indo-Pacific

In Asia Pacific

Para magkaroon ng common front

Doon sa negotiations of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

So nagkaroon ng meeting ng mga leaders

From across the region ng smaller nations

Nagsama sila

Marcos Senior brought them together

And together they negotiated

For a final version of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Kung saan pinoprotektaan yung interest

Ng mga mas maliliit at mas mahirap na bansa

So I have serious issues with the human rights record

The economic record of the dictatorship

I think it was one of the most incompetent

Corrupt dictatorships anywhere on earth

At least yung ibang dictators

At least they made you know

Samsungs and LGs and all of that possible

Itong dictator neto wala tayong nakuha

Kundi mga utang at mga problematic stuff

And please if you have 20 years in power

Obviously you're gonna

Sana naman may mabuild ka naman

Baka naman diba

So anyway going back to this

But sa West Philippines is a foreign policy

In fairness si Senior I think he got it

He had a basic understanding

What was strategically important for the Philippines

Now yung anak niya

I may have disagreements with you on certain issues

On domestic issues

Maharlika for

We can go on and on right

But in fairness

I think pagdating sa foreign policy

Yung sensibility niya ay mas malapit sa kanyang ama

And we confirmed this in multiple interviews that we had

With Ambassador Ramaldez

Two interviews at least

Earlier this year

And Ambassador Ramaldez of course is not just our ambassador to the United States

He's not just a veteran journalist

He's also a close cousin of President Marcos Jr.

And he's a very close advisor of President Marcos Jr.

So he knows what he's talking about

So

So sa tingin ko

Dahil itong China ay hindi na ikinig sa mga experts na katulad natin

Because I've been saying this for quite some time

Sinulat ko yan last year June pa lang sabi ko

BBM will be different from Duterte

He'll be more like his father than Tatay Digong

I made it absolutely clear

But hindi naman

Mukhang hindi yan ang binabasa ng embahada ng isang kaibigan natin dyan

Ang binabasa nila yung mga makapili

Mga makapili analyst na walang publication na relevant

Walang na-publish na any relevant peer-reviewed publication

Wala silang publication ng any legit book

Wala silang any expertise established

Wala mga ano essentially mga

Alam mo na diba

So itong makapili club na yan

Unfortunately mukhang sila lang pinapakinggan ng isang embahada dyan

Kaya they were misled

To think first that BBM would be more like Digong

And B they thought that even if that were not to be the case

Dahil andun si Tatay Digong pwede i-pressure si BBM ng bla bla bla

But again

Yan kasi hindi sila nakikinig sa mga eksperto na legit

I mean of course

Libre naman magbasa ng mga sinisulat natin

You don't have to meet us

Because I'm not interested too

But my point is that they're free to read

More legit analysts and experts

Who actually know what they're talking about

And correctly predicted the flow of things

We correctly predicted

Almost exactly predicted

If you go to my speech in the National University of Singapore

ICS Center

In 2016

I perfectly

I almost exactly predicted

What will be the Philippines position

As the ASEAN Chair in 2017

I said we will downplay the South China issue

We'll overplay issues like

Drugs

And of course

Terrorism also because of Marawi

And that's exactly what happened

And so on and so forth

And I said when Duterte will come

He'll try to cancel joint patrols with the US

He'll try to reconfigure yung Balikatan Excerpt

And that's exactly what he did in his first year in office

So

Medyo gets na gets na

I mean

All my writings are out there

You can go and check it yourself

Right

You can also check

Yung podcast ko with my former colleague

This is interesting

Let me go to it

So I had a podcast with Howie Severino

Last year

Right after the elections

And it's incredible

When I read it

It's like

Wait

Parang yun nga

Ito ah

Ang title po niya is

What to expect under the second Marcos administration

According to Richard Heydarian

Okay

Sabi ko

Marcos wants to be like his dad

In the sense that he wants to have an A-list cabinet

Where he can assemble that is another question

Which is again

So I look forward to this again

So sabi ko

Ang dapat na tingnan natin

In DOF

DFA

And DND

I heard Gibo could be considered

After one year lapsed yung restriction

Maybe Lorenzano could

So

Exactly

That's what happened

Gibo became the DND after one year

When nag lapsing restriction din

Sama losing

Losing candidates

I expected the top sensitive positions to go

To professionals

And veterans

And I said

Marcos game's plan is to show a new face

Good face to the world

And try to go on charm offensives

I won't be surprised if he'll try to visit Brussels

For the Asia Europe Summit

And I think

That will be his debut

So

Kung pakinggan niyo yung injury ko with

Howie Severino

I said

You're not gonna get a Duterte 2.0

You're gonna get

Marcos who tries to win back the West

Rehabilitate their name

And along the way

Also adopt a much more

You know

Much more palatable position in the West Philippine Sea

And

Lo and behold

That's exactly what's happening

Right

That's exactly what's happening

So

I think a big part of what we're seeing right now is

Yung China nasa denial phase pa rin sila

Hindi nila matanggap

Na etong presidente na natin ngayon

Hindi katulad nung dating presidente

And they're having a hard time accepting the fact that

Actually this is not about Marcos per se

Any decent self-respecting

And I'll be very honest about it

Patriotic Philippine president

Right

Will make sure that we do the minimums

The very minimums

And this is yung mga minimums na pwede natin gawin sa West Philippine Sea

Yung constant resupply mission

Diyan sa yung insol

And eventually fortify our position in the area

Para solid yung presence natin dyan literally and figuratively

Right

So this is not about BBM being a great president per se

This is about BBM doing the common sensible thing

And by the way

A survey just came out that said

Majority of Filipinas actually support the current course of action

Yung mga makapili club

Kamusta naman kayo dyan?

Medyo galingan nyo naman ng konti

3% na lang yata ang support nyo

Anyway

Ang point ko dito is

By the way may statement na ba mga Dutertes?

Si VP sa nangyari sa West Philippine Sea

Patapos na po ang taon

Medyo ano na

Nasaan na po yung statements?

Okay anyway going back to this

Ito na kasi mga kameta

Ito lang, ito lang, ito lang

So really this is my read

So just to simplify this

Just to be super simple and simplify this

I think

Okay just to simplify this mga kameta

I think a big reason why China is so OA

And overreacting dyan sa West Philippine Sea

Is not only because they want to intimidate us

And they want to dissuade us

From pushing ahead with further expansion of enhanced defense cooperation agreement

It's not only about us

Not granting the Americans more access to bases close to Taiwan

Of course this is very important for China

This is not only about them trying to also intimidate

Other ASEAN countries from supporting us

And standing shoulder to shoulder with us

And expressing solidarity

This is not only about signaling to other ASEAN countries that

Hey you want to think twice before bringing in other powers

To push back against us

And that we want to just deal with us one by one

Because we know

If you're the big guy

You always want to deal with other countries one by one

You don't want them to unify or get help from elsewhere

Because you don't want a level playing field

I think all of those things are somehow a factor

But I think the biggest factor here

And the most underappreciated factor is very psychological

For almost six years

China had someone like Rodrigo Duterte

In power in the Philippines

This was a president that consistently undermined our peace

And undermined our position in the West Philippine Sea

He thrashed

And in a way almost trashed

Our own arbitration victory in 2016

Never used it as a leverage

Because this is about diplomacy and strategy

It's all about leverage

Of course China was never going to accept 100%

But you could have used it as a leverage

This is the president that undermined our position

By bashing our traditional allies

While we didn't have much of defensive capabilities of our own

This is the president that year after year after year

Would make jokes about us being province of China

Jokes about his jet ski

Jokes about

You know

Not so jokes

He would say that we should be meek and humble and all of that

So this is the problem

That a bully in the West Philippine Sea

Is used to be this kind of leader in the Philippines

And even when

The Philippine people

Or senators

Or congressmen

Someone like Pacquiao would come out and say

Hey, that's wrong

That's not right

Eh, China said that

That's where Digong is

We'll defend that, right?

Or

When Genver was dismissed

In the Red Bank-Recto Bank

Or

What did the president do?

He essentially pirated the line of the

Not our own officials

Not Secretary Lorenzana

Not anyone who knew what was happening on the ground

Which is, you know

That's crazy

A suspected Chinese militia just ramming into a Filipino vessel

In an area which falls within our sovereign rights

No

So for six years

They were used to this kind of president

This kind of attitude

And this kind of attitude

In a way

In the Philippines

So now that we finally have a president

Who's doing the basics

The common sensible thing you expect from any self-respecting patriotic dignified president

Parang hindi nila matanggap yan

So they're still in that denial phase

And while they're in that denial phase

They're lashing out

And they're trying to silence us

And they're trying to bully us

But the problem is that the more they do that

The more they're gonna act immature

And they're gonna act in this whiplash approach

The more

They're actually setting the stage

For tensions in the region

So the provocation and bullying and intimidation

Is not for the far smaller, poorer country

Which is the Philippines

But it's clearly from the other side

But so long as that side doesn't have self-awareness

And so long as that side is not gonna rely on good analysis

So long as that side is gonna just rely on makapili experts

We're gonna walk into a very, very dangerous situation

A perilous situation

But gladly, the Philippines is not alone

On that note, thank you very much everyone