Bakit bumaba ang ranking ng Pilipinas sa China Index? | Howie Severino Presents - video Dailymotion

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Base sa latest edition ng China Index, isang cross-regional project na layong sukatin ang overseas influence ng People‘s Republic of China, bumaba sa ika-29 na ranggo ang Pilipinas nitong 2024 mula sa pagiging ika-pito noong 2022.    Ano kaya ang rason para dito? At ano ang kinalaman dito ng pagpapalit ng administrasyon ng Pilipinas at ng Transparency Initiative sa West Philippine Sea?   Alamin sa part two ng Online Invasion series ng Howie Severino Presents:  YT: https://youtu.be/vt_jM7STCpo?si=CkWIcD5mfqeJD8nA  FB: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ZmDoSq6fh/?mibextid=wwXIfr  Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/2y7xnbne   Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/mu74t35e

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00:00So, we have dropped in the rankings from number seven in terms of the most influenced by China.

00:08We're now 29th.

00:09Ang laki ng drop, no?

00:11But still, we're in the top third pa rin in terms of Chinese influence.

00:16What caused this drop?

00:17Well, we can say that the cost of the drop is actually the pivoting of the current government.

00:23We know that during the former President Duterte's time, ang pivot natin is away from the U.S. towards China.

00:29And other non-traditional partners because we wanted to supposedly maintain independent foreign policy.

00:36But with the BBM administration, what he did was to actually try to balance the relationship with China

00:43by pivoting to the United States for our security requirements, for our security needs,

00:49while maintaining economic engagements with the PRC.

00:53And the major shift was a big, it degraded a lot of the Chinese influence.

00:58Meron po tayong transparency initiative in the West Philippine Sea.

01:03So, because of that transparency initiative, tumaas yung skepticism ng Filipinos towards the PRC.

01:08Because we really see what they're doing with the bullying of not just our uniform personnel,

01:12but of the ordinary fisher folks there.

01:16So, marami pong naging effect yung pag-pivot natin at pag-try na pag-hedge or pag-balance ng gobyerno natin

01:23sa engagement natin with the PRC as well as the U.S.

01:27And right now, with the move to create strategic partnerships with other countries in terms of defense,

01:34I think it further limits the impact of China on the Philippines.

01:38So, I want to ask you about this transparency initiative.

01:42Nung palahoni ng Duterte administration, media was rarely allowed to accompany the Navy, the Coast Guard,

01:55or whatever military presence there was in the West Philippine Sea to see what was going on.

01:59Under the Marcos administration, it's been much looser, the controls.

02:06In fact, they encourage journalists covering military patrols, operations.

02:15There have also been even civilian operations visiting various sites there.

02:20And there have actually been encounters, hostile interactions that have been captured by media,

02:29both international and domestic, Philippine media.

02:32And you're saying that has actually had an impact on ordinary people in the Philippines?

02:40Yes.

02:40Just allowing them to see what was really going on.

02:44Before, people didn't know.

02:46Because we treated it more as a foreign policy issue than a human security issue.

02:54So, ang isa pa pong pinapakita talaga ng transparency initiative is how the West Philippine Sea issue

03:03and China's bullying is preventing us from taking care of the ordinary Filipinos.

03:09So, for instance, one of the more common narratives na sinasabi ng mga actors is,

03:16bakit tayo nagsaspend ng sobrang daming pera on military build-up?

03:20Eh, nagugutom yung mga Pilipino.

03:22Totoo po ba na nagugutom mga ilang mga Pilipino?

03:25Yes.

03:26But they don't make the effort to actually combine or to actually bridge the gap of,

03:34you know, if we take care of the West Philippine Sea,

03:35we're going to be able to address food security in the Philippines.

03:39If we take care of our EEZ, which is wherein we have exclusive rights,

03:44we're going to be able to take care of the food security of the Philippines.

03:47And this is something that the Transparency Initiative is, I think,

03:50slowly trying to communicate along with our journalists and the media.

03:55Yung ganito pong mga gaps in the narratives na madalas kumakalat from the other side.

04:01But that was the point of this recent documentary, Food Delivery, right?

04:07Na, you know, a big part of the struggle there is over fisheries.

04:11Yes.

04:11If China tries to prevent access to these waters,

04:16it's, again, it's not just a matter of military access,

04:19it's also fisherfolk, ordinary Filipino fishermen,

04:24fishing, you know, catching fish for food.

04:29Yes.

04:30And, you know, we know that fisherfolk are among the poorest sectors in the Philippines.

04:35So, yung po mga narratives na ganito is actually very concerning

04:39because they make use of what is truthful,

04:42which is food security is an issue in the Philippines.

04:45And then they weaponize it to attack something else,

04:49another priority, which is AFP modernization or defense build-up.

04:54Kung ibabalik po natin sa concept din ng FIMI,

04:57we can say that this is information manipulation,

05:01wherein you frame a certain truth and then you weaponize it,

05:06and then you use it to achieve your own ends.

05:08At marami pong nangyayaring ganito.

05:10So, sa pag-aaral po namin,

05:12it's not just fact-checking or truthfulness or veracity,

05:15it's also framing these narratives to weaponize it

05:19against, you know, against us, the Filipino people,

05:22the government, or even certain individuals.

05:26But sometimes what's being framed is not even true.

05:28Yes.

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