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00:00The National Security Council of China, which is an SPIA,
00:04has attacked the three Filipinos there.
00:07They claim that they are copying China,
00:09and they believe that the video was edited or scripted by the Chinese government
00:13in which the three confessed their crimes.
00:15Jonathan Andal was on the scene.
00:21Three Filipinos were imprisoned in China because of the allegation of being an SPIA there.
00:26One of them is their sister.
00:28I exclusively talked to her on the condition that she will not be named.
00:42Last November, they were unable to contact the sister in China
00:45who claimed to be going to Wenchang City for a job interview.
00:48Did she mention what job it is?
00:50No, sir. She did not mention it to us.
00:53According to the Chinese media,
00:55there is a video of the three Filipinos confessing that they are SPIAs of the Philippines.
01:01My colleague confirmed that her sister is in the video,
01:04but it is not true that she is an SPIA, even though she admitted it in the video.
01:09First of all, our sister knows the laws in China.
01:14She also told us that this and that is prohibited there.
01:19Even if they want to fly to China,
01:21they do not know, even our consulate in Guangzhou, where the three are imprisoned.
01:26They have nothing to do but wait for news and send messages to the sister.
01:31Be strong.
01:33Trust the Lord that everything will be fine.
01:37We love you a lot.
01:40According to the National Security Council,
01:42the three are not SPIAs and according to the NSC,
01:45the video was released by China.
01:47The video is heavily edited,
01:49the confessions of the three.
01:53We think that the videos are scripted.
01:58There are references of the Philippine Intelligence Agency
02:05or Philippine Spy Intelligence Service.
02:07There is no such thing as a government agency or government intelligence unit.
02:15How can the three be SPIAs when they are ordinary citizens?
02:19There is no military training and there is no access to the military bases of China.
02:23China also did not show evidence that the three Filipinos have SPIA equipment,
02:28unlike the case of Chinese spies who were arrested in Palawan last January,
02:33who even found a drone.
02:35Yusek Malaya thinks that China is possibly involved.
02:39This is a legitimate operation to arrest the spies here.
02:47We assure the Chinese that all the rights of a foreigner in the Philippines will be protected.
02:55According to the Palawan Provincial Government,
02:58the three arrested Filipinos are former scholars of Hainan University in China
03:02who have a sisterhood agreement with the Palawan LGU
03:06so that Filipinos can study freely there.
03:08These three former scholars are from first and second batch.
03:15They already finished their studies by 2021.
03:20They went back here in Palawan but applied for a job back in China.
03:26They went back to China as migrant workers or OFWs.
03:32One of them is already working there as an English instructor in a university.
03:36The other one is in a pharmaceutical company.
03:39The other one is working in a coconut factory.
03:42There are 11 more Filipino students in Hainan University.
03:46Three of them want to go back to the Philippines because of fear.
03:50There's no more intention of doing the memorandum agreement with Hainan University to send scholars in China.
03:56For GMA Integrated News, Jonathan Andal, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.
04:02For GMA Integrated News, Jonathan Andal, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.