00:00How is China infiltrating the Philippines through disinformation campaigns?
00:04Well, when you talk about Chinese influence operation, it's multi-layer.
00:11You have the Chinese embassy that's very much active in financing troll farms.
00:17So this year, of course, there was an expose by the Philippine intelligence community
00:23about the Chinese embassy in Manila paying about 300 million pesos to a company
00:32that's managing troll farms to attack, of course, the United States and the Philippine-U.S. alliance.
00:39So that's the element there.
00:41You have the Chinese diplomatic community very active in terms of this operation.
00:47Then, of course, you have Filipino academics or analysts, or they claim to be academics,
00:55who are, of course, embedded in several quote-unquote think tanks
00:59that, of course, also articulating the Chinese narrative.
01:03So they also get support, of course, from the Chinese embassy.
01:06And recently, of course, what is being noticed is Chinese operation,
01:10Chinese influence operation through social media.
01:13That's, of course, being conducted from the People's Republic of China.
01:17So you can see really well-funded, well-oiled, and, of course,
01:22multi-layer Chinese influence operation going on in the Philippines.
01:28To what extent do you think private companies in the Philippines are vulnerable
01:32to misinformation campaigns or information warfare by China?
01:36And how might those companies move to mitigate those risks and vulnerabilities?
01:40When you look at it in terms of this Chinese operation being conducted
01:44in a pluralistic competitive media environment, you see, of course, the fact that it's kind of
01:50the effectivities of Chinese influence operation is diminished by the fact that it had to compete
01:57with other discourse or narratives, especially, of course, in a society that basically looks at,
02:03for example, the West, like, for example, Japan, I think, Taiwan, and many European countries.
02:10So Chinese influence operation effectivity is more or less mitigated by a competitive, pluralistic media environment.
02:19Zooming out from the Philippines and looking at the region more broadly,
02:22it's not the only country that is currently facing issues in either in misinformation
02:27or in maritime boundary disputes with China.
02:30What can the Philippines and Taiwan learn from each other, or what can they work on together
02:35to better face this threat that both of them seem to be going through right now?
02:39Definitely there should be an active engagement of two liberal democracies,
02:45two island republics that are, of course, faced by a common threat.
02:48Chinese influence operation, and, of course, Chinese aggression and expansion into our maritime domain.
02:55In the case of the Philippines, of course, we have the challenge of confronting the Chinese
02:59in the West Philippines East, South China Sea.
03:01And slowly, of course, there's also recognition that Chinese, your dentist's agenda against China
03:08will be a threat to Philippine national security.
03:11No less than President Ferdinand Marcos said it, I think it was in August, early August,
03:16when he was, of course, in India and he was interviewed, that if China would attack Taiwan
03:22and there'll be a major conflict here, the Philippines will be pulled, dragging, and kicking.
03:27So there's also recognition of the fact that we are not only liberal democracies,
03:34our security is more or less intertwined by the fact that we are neighbors
03:39and we are confronted by a common threat, Chinese maritime expansion into the first island chain.
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03:57we can try to numeric art, Chinese Luego might travel to Canada to Santos
03:59and how many people at the tender countries understand their understanding and what would
04:01interpret the same Airlines.
04:04Oh, yeah.
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