A propaganda that falls flat on Dayunyor’s face

SINCE January 21, the “Dayunyor” administration of Bongbong Marcos, using the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Justice Department (DOJ) and the Armed Forces (AFP), has been spinning out this fantastic story of “nabbing a Chinese national and two Pinoys for espionage.”

In a joint press conference with AFP chief, Gen. Romeo Brawner, the NBI paraded the Chinese “sleeper agent,” Deng Yuanqing, and his two Filipino “accomplices,” Ronel Besa and Jayson Fernandez.

The NBI claimed they found alleged “espionage electronic equipment” at the trunk of the vehicle used by Deng’s group.

Confidently, the NBI also tagged Deng as a “graduate” of the ‘PLA University of Science and Technology,’ which an agency official described, in a sinister tone, as “controlled and operated by the People’s Liberation Army, the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party and the PROC.”

With Joseph Goebel’s dictum in mind that “a lie repeated a thousand times becomes truth” and the “bigger the lie, the better,” the government propagandize its claim of ‘Chinese espionage’ in print, broadcast, and social media for many days while they continue to violate Deng’s rights under international law by delaying any visit of the accused’s family and the Chinese Embassy consular officials to assess the facts.

Unfortunately for the government, the same public whom they want to convince was also the same public that scrutinized the incident and found it to be a hoax.

Hundreds of social media posts have debunked what the NBI claimed as Deng’s “high tech” military equipment as they turned out to be a regular power inverter, SMS booster, scanner, things that can be freely bought in any online merchandize shop by anyone, to include the so-called ‘military grade’ laser range finder the NBI said they also recovered from Deng.

In short, what they seized from Deng were ordinary commercial goods and not “top secret” as the government spin suggested.

The NBI’s other main evidence, that Deng is a PLA University graduate was also false.

When the Chinese Embassy finally accessed Deng, they found his name is written in Chinese character as “邓元清” (the last character, 清, meaning ‘clear’) and that he is an innocent contractor for a driving tech company working on a road-testing project in the Philippines, a fact also attested to by his Filipina wife.

The NBI’s poor job of properly identifying a suspect was revealed after it confused Deng with a ‘Deng Yuanqing,’ whose name in Chinese character is written as “邓元庆” (the last character 庆 meaning ‘celebration’), who is indeed a professor of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the University of Science and Technology, according to a search of the Internet.

From my end, the NBI and AFP rushed into these blunders upon pressure from the “higher ups” to drum up another anti-China story to divert media and public attention from the escalating PR crisis of the BBM government over the “Bi-Scam Budget Anomaly” and the “GAA ‘fill-in-the-blank’ mystery,” among others.

It is clear “Dayunyor” is now doubling down on Sinophobia to coverup his gross ‘malgovernance.’

His latest attempt of blackmailing China by claiming he will remove the US Typhoon missiles in exchange for our territorial claim in the South China Sea is another media optic that has only drawn ridicule to himself.

Spinning anti-China stories is clearly the last resort of a crumbling government, its foreign backers, and their proxy security institutions but which have all fallen flat on their face.

What an embarrassment.