Exposedmotimediaph

20/12/2022

Papayag kaba?

19/12/2022

Half century scam

19/12/2022

Salamat sa pagpapahirap mo samin Ka Joma!

10/05/2022

The Filipinos have spoken!

05/05/2022

19/04/2022

Pinoy AKO sa Manlulupig di ka Pasisiil

28/01/2022

China’s Desperate Measure!

Protecting the Chinese mainland and its territorial claims around the region are what Beijing calls “near seas defense.”

China’s massive naval build-up coincides with it reinforcing its claims to almost all of the 3.3 million square-kilometre (1.3 million square-miles) South China Sea by building up tiny reefs and sandbars into man-made artificial islands heavily fortified with missiles, runways and weapons systems.

“Islands and reefs in South China Sea have unique advantages in safeguarding national sovereignty and maintaining a military presence in the open sea,” read a December 2020 article in Naval and Merchant Ships, a Beijing-based magazine published by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, which supplies the PLA Navy.

But they can’t stand alone, the magazine noted. In the events of hostilities, outposts in the southern reaches of the waterway could require reinforcements from near China’s southern coast, more than a day’s sailing away, it said.

Piling resources in the near seas to achieve that level of control could be problematic for China, some argue. It may leave China vulnerable to a distant naval blockade that could deprive it of vital materials from abroad, severing what are termed sea lines of communication, or SLOC for short.

“China does not control the straits and transit lanes on which its economy depends and ‘once a crisis or war at sea occurs, (China’s) sea transport could be cut off,'” Jennifer Rice and Eric Robb, senior intelligence analysts at the US Office of Naval Intelligence, wrote in a paper for the US Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute last month. “The regional focus of near seas defense is also insufficient to address the increasingly global scope of China’s economic interests.”

To bring Chinese military power to bear on its global interests, they said, China has begun implementing “far seas protection.”

“Far seas protection reflects Beijing’s direction for the PLAN to ‘go global,’ … part of a larger Chinese government policy to encourage the expansion of China’s economy and cultural outreach,”.

Part of the play is perception. For decades now, nothing has quite projected military power as the image of a US Navy aircraft carrier in waters far from home. It’s something China craves, analysts say.

“Some Chinese military analysts suggest it is imperative for the PLA to safeguard China’s overseas interests and note that sending out the PLAN is essential to establishing China’s image as a great power,”.

Dozens of corvettes can’t do that. So China has ramped up its production of ships that form an aircraft carrier task force, like guided-missile cruisers and nuclear-powered submarines, which have much longer endurance than the diesel-electrics that comprise most of the PLAN fleet.

The PLA Navy has two aircraft carriers in service, but their endurance without refueling is limited to less than week, according to the China Power project. That makes them more suitable for use in places like the South China Sea rather than in far oceans.

But more carriers are in planning and production. The newest planned Chinese carrier is expected to be equipped with a nuclear power reactor and electromagnetic catapults that will enable it to launch aircraft with more firepower and greater range than the existing carriers.

The Chinese defense white papers, from 2015 and 2019, say long-range naval forces are necessary to help with international peacekeeping, disaster relief and naval diplomacy — in other words, flying China’s flag overseas.

But they issue a warning. “The peacetime nature of these activities can obscure far seas protection’s wartime applications. The concept encourages offensive operations during wartime, despite the defensive strategy its name implies,” they wrote.

Citing Chinese publications, they add, “One source urges naval forces to ‘control key strategic channels’ far from China. Another source advocates employing strategic ‘fist’ forces formed around aircraft carriers. … Another wartime mission is to strike important nodes and high-value targets in the enemy’s strategic depth to ‘ease pressure on the near-seas battlefield.'”

– Andres P. Calungsod

https://exposedmotimediaph.com/wp/2022/01/24/chinas-desperate-measure/

Protecting the Chinese mainland and its territorial claims around the region are what Beijing calls “near seas defense.” China’s massive naval build-up coincides with it reinforcing its claims to almost all of the 3.3 million square-kilometre (1.3 million square-miles) South China Sea by build...

28/01/2022

Ph Mutual Defense Treaty

While it’s true that the most country is protecting its interests in the South China Sea, Filipinos tend to fail to understand that Filipino interests are in line with other country interests in most cases.

Heard of the term "mutual/common interests"?
The Philippine EEZ and Kalayaan Island Group free of Chinese presence and under control by the Philippines is an example of common or mutual interests between the Philippines and the other country, as would benefit from it.

For those saying that the Philippines would just be a battleground between China and other foreign country - that is something unavoidable and will still happen even we are friends with China, or declare neutrality. The Philippines can never be neutral as its strategic location would never be wasted by China. None of the country would respect Philippine neutrality. Besides, the Philippines may even be the reason for both countries to go to war.
The only way for the Philippines to avoid this scenario is for it to be moved away from where it is located, which we all know is impossible.

The only way to avoid total destruction is to make China think twice of making trouble in the region - that can be done by:
* make the Philippines economically and militarily strong;
* work close with likeminded countries and allies and work together as one large powerful and united group, and avoid giving China a chance to divide and conquer the group;
* do not show weakness to China, as China will only bully the Philippines more if it keeps bowing to Chinese strength. China respects strength, and takes advantage of the weak.

- Marisol A. Mercado

https://exposedmotimediaph.com/wp/2022/01/24/ph-mutual-defense-treaty/

28/01/2022

Gabriela party-list, terrorist organization funded abroad!

National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., vice chairman of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ElCAC), has written a most revealing article on the actual connection of Gabriela party-list to the communist terrorist insurgency of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).

After citing that the CPP-NPA-NDF had been declared a terrorist organization internationally, Esperon zeroed in on the Gabriela party-list, denouncing it as an adjunct of the Sisonite insurgency complete with telling details.

According to him, it was in March 2019 when the National Intelligence Coordination Agency (NICA) requested the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to investigate reports that the CPP-NPA was getting financial support from non-government organizations (NGO) through its various front organizations. One such organization, according to the Esperon, was Gabriela party-list, formed in 2003 ostensibly to champion the cause of women and then went on to now occupy two seats in the House of Representatives.

The NTF-ELCAC found that the names “Gabriel Women’s Party” as a party-list group, the “General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action, Inc.,” “Gabriela” and “Gabriela, Inc.” have been used interchangeably in the Security and Exchange Commission records.

Says Esperon in his article (translated from the Filipino original): “On May 20, my office received a letter from the Philippine embassy in Belgium. The letter contained a copy of the result of the external financial audit done by Peter Lenoir of Mazars bedrijfsrevisoren CVBA. Mr. Lenoir was contracted by the Belgium government to make a fair investigation of the external financial audit of Gabriela.”

Esperon said he made a personal interpretation of the letter and became certain that those suspect NGOs and party-list groups were indeed related to each other.

“Therefore,” wrote Esperon, “I am undertaking to have the registration of Gabriela Women’s Party canceled for violation of Section 2, Paragraph 5, Article 9 (C) of the 1987 Constitution thus:

“Register, after sufficient publication, political parties, organizations, or coalitions which, in addition to other requirements, must present their platform or program of government; and accredit citizens’ arms of the Commission on Elections. Religious denominations and sects shall not be registered.

Those which seek to achieve their goals through violence or unlawful means, or refuse to uphold and adhere to this Constitution, or which are supported by any foreign government shall likewise be refused registration.

“Financial contributions from foreign governments and their agencies to political parties, organizations, coalitions, or candidates related to elections, constitute interference in national affairs, and, when accepted, shall be an additional ground for the cancellation of their registration with the Commission, in addition to other penalties that may be prescribed by law.”

Moreover, according to the article, Gabriela party-list violated Rule 32, Section 8 (D) of Comelec Rules of Procedures thus:

“Upon verified complaint of any interested party, or motu propio by the Commission, the registration of any political party, coalition of political parties or organization under the party-list system may be canceled after due notice and hearing on the following grounds:

d) The said political party, coalition of political parties or organization has become a religious sect or denomination, is pursuing its goals thru violence or other unlawful means, is refusing to adhere to or uphold the Constitution of the Philippines, or is receiving support from any foreign government…”

Esperon detailed a matrix clearly showing that posts have been held by same personalities in both Gabriela Women’s Party and Gabriela, Inc.

“I also discovered that the names cited above have been rotating for themselves the top posts both for the Gabriela Women’s Party and the Gabriela, Inc.,” Esperon wrote.

He showed in the accompanying table how the same top Gabriela personalities have been rotating among themselves alone the terms as representatives of the two groups in Congress.

On the other hand, Esperon presented the damning evidence of how the Gabriela party-list has been receiving donations for the insurgency through a total of 16 bank accounts.

“Stated here are the foreign government and NGOs which donated financial support to the Gabriela party. Because of this violation, it is clear that this party-list in Congress must be disqualified,” concluded Esperon.

https://exposedmotimediaph.com/wp/2021/12/02/gabriela-party-list-terrorist-organization-funded-abroad/

28/01/2022

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