Chinese in Cagayan: Students or spies?

This is in reaction to the article “Gov’t panel to meet amid ‘influx’ of Chinese students in Cagayan” (Inquirer.net, 4/22/24).

In the face of Chinese militia’s aggressive actions using water cannons in the West Philippine Sea, which has already resulted in the injury of some Filipino fishermen and Philippine Coast Guard crew members, the reported influx of Chinese nationals who pose as students is reasonable cause for apprehension.

This, in addition to reports about the entry of many Chinese nationals allegedly aged about 35 years who were applying for special resident retiree visas and employees of Philippine offshore gaming operators who have long been in the country. The latter has been reported to even have a practice firing range somewhere in Parañaque City.

We have reason to believe that these Chinese could be veritable spies or advanced occupation troops. In one of your editorials, you mentioned the “Trojan horse.”

My late grandfather used to tell us about many Japanese nationals who were engaged in the business of buying old newspapers, bottles, and scrap iron before World War II. It turned out that those Japanese men were intelligence officers who would later don military uniforms when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines.

Those Chinese who are already in the country are potential agents engaged in gathering human intelligence in addition to the information supplied by Chinese transmitters that can collect signal intelligence that the Philippine government allowed to be built right in military bases.

I cringe in horror at the specter of a Chinese invasion that can easily conquer us as a result of thousands of Chinese already deployed in our country.

Ramon Mayuga,

ramon.mayuga49@gmail.com