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RADM Rommel Ong of the Ateneo School of Government argues that the tensions in the West Philippine Sea are not a manifestation of military violence, but rather a deliberate attempt to undermine the country’s food and energy security.

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00:00of its sharp power which targets domestic Philippine politics and Philippine society
00:06and that manifests in terms of disinformation,
00:13elicoptation, economic infiltration and these are not issues of violence per se
00:21but just the same it is targeted on the ability of the Philippines to actually
00:30exists as a state and a society. What happens in the West Philippine Sea is not violence per se
00:38against in terms of military context, it's a violence directed against at least two of our
00:45security considerations, energy security and food security. Food security is something that is
00:54of course essential to any society and in those cases
01:02it impacts on the viability of our ability to actually
01:10prosper as a nation. So violence need not be in the kinetic terms
01:20violence but violence can be expressed in terms of actions that actually impinges on the ability
01:26of a state or nation to actually exist as a nation and do what it desires to do
01:35hopefully in a more peaceful conditions.
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