Aside from Bamban mayor, indict bribes of China spies

Is Bamban mayor Alice Guo a China sleeper? Senators are probing beyond her ties to offshore Chinese gambling that branched out to human trafficking and cyber scamming. But investigating possible spying is vital to national security.

Did ex-president Duterte promise China to not repair BRP Sierra Madre? Congressmen can easily link him to 7,000 drug killings. But proving a plot to sink the Navy ship is crucial for national survival.

Aside from Guo and Duterte, other officials need indicting. First are Immigration bureau bribees.

In 2016-2018, 3.12 million Chinese nationals were granted residency (The STAR, June 9, 2018). Most work in offshore gaming for Chinese high rollers. “Immigration floodgates were thrown open in one of the most remarkable subversions in recent history,” Demetrius Cox wrote that month in Journal of Political Risk.

It took 196,000 Japanese soldiers to invade the Philippines in 1941 and a million Germans to take Poland in 1939. But Duterte increased the Philippine population, then at 103 million, by three percent, Cox noted:

“In China’s long game this is an important development. It is effectively colonizing a democratic neighbor and treaty ally of its chief rival, USA, while driving a strategic wedge deep into the Western Pacific – without firing a shot.

“China’s illegal construction of five man-made island fortresses in the South China Sea has elicited outrage. But it’s laughing at the world. The landing of a People’s Liberation Army-Air Force IL-76 at Davao City on June 8 suggests that China is buying and colonizing a 7,100-island unsinkable aircraft carrier, while threateningly encircling and containing every regional neighbor and rival.”

Many Chinese entered via Subic Freeport, Zambales. Each paid P60,000 under the table. Bribed too were Philippine consulate personnel in China.

Also corrupted was Philippine Retirement Authority. Of 78,000 aliens given permanent residencies, 30,000 were Chinese. Many were 35 years old – soldiery age, noted Sen. Nancy Binay last April.

Four Chinese gangsters had been nabbed earlier holding special resident retiree visas. “Interdictions of Chinese with authentic government-issued documents identifying them as