TURNING POINT: A Betrayal to Missing Alice

NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MinsaNews / 17 July) – It now appears that the Chinese aggressive maritime incursion in the West Philippines Sea is but a diversionary tactic to lure us away from their insidious inland invasion of the country.

Again, this is made possible by the assist and facilitation of their famous Filipino ally in the person of former President Rodrigo Duterte.

Duterte’s open door policy to China, flooded the country with Chinese migrants of various backgrounds, persuasions and interest – legitimate investors, spies, criminal elements, such as drug lords, and gambling tycoons.

Digong approved and promoted the operations of offshore online gambling to be known later as the Philippines Offshore Gambling Operators (POGO), which recruited by fraudulent ways several thousands of Chinese and other nationalities to work as online gambling players and cyber scammers under extreme condition of forced labor, torture and other inhumane treatments. The raid in the Bamban POGO hub exposed the seriousness of human trafficking, money laundering and other criminalities associated with the running of POGO.

Under Duterte’s watch, POGO hubs were even erected suspiciously close to security establishments, such as in Clark airbase and in the naval base of Cavite.

It is surmised that in POGO, China taps other than its spies criminal syndicates, such as the Chinese triad to ruin the country by undermining its peace and security.

Alice Guo, the first known Chinese sleeper who becomes a local executive, the mayor of Bamban, Tarlac, has successfully served both “official” Chinese interest and a criminal enterprise in the country.

After her cover has been shredded, she disappears. She is likely spirited out of Bamban by her handler or protector. If ever she would be found in Davao, your guess for the happenstance is as good as mine.

Everyone is looking for Alice. Her episodes in the Senate have overtaken attention over local TV teleseryes and Netflix series.

(MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews. William R. Adan, Ph.D., is retired professor and former chancellor of Mindanao State University at Naawan, Misamis Oriental.)