According to local private universities there, there are only 486 foreign students from different nationalities. See these two reports.
1. Cagayan schools: ‘Baseless’ to say Chinese students threaten PH security
By: Luisa Cabato - April 19, 2024
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/232553/cagayan-schools-baseless-to-say-chinese-students-threaten-ph-security
The Medical Colleges of the Northern Philippines (MCNP), University of Cagayan Valley (UCV), University of Saint Louis Tuguegarao (USLT), and Saint Paul University Philippines (SPUP) even called the innuendos as a “blatant display of racism and sinophobia.”
They also dismissed claims that 4,600 foreign students are now enrolled in Cagayan schools.
According to them, only SPUP has enrolled foreign students numbering 486 as of April 17, 2024 because MCNP, UCV, and USLT have zero enrolled foreign students.
2. Get facts straight on Sino students, gov’t execs told
By: Jane Bautista, Marlon Ramos - April 21, 2024
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1931821/get-facts-straight-on-sino-students-govt-execs-told
"Cagayan Rep. JosephLara claimed there were more than 4,500 Chinese students presently attending classes in one private university alone.
However, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said it only issued a total of 1,516 student visas to Chinese nationals in Cagayan last year.
In a joint statement released earlier this week, concerned colleges and universities denied the reports on the influx of Chinese students.
“The current foreign student enrollment at St. Paul University Philippines in Tuguegarao City is 486 graduate students as of April 17, 2024, which consists of various nationalities (Americans, Chinese, Indonesians, Japanese and Vietnamese),” they added.
So Cagayan Cong. Joseph Lara was likely engaged in disinformation for alleging "more than 4,500 Chinese students presently attending classes in one private university alone."
There is one goal by this kind of disinformation -- trillions of Filipino taxpayers' money -- to purchase submarines, battleships, jetfighters, missiles, etc and become a potential meat grinder in the potential proxy war US - China.
The disinformation re 4,600 CN students was deliberate and intentional. Then others are party to the deception.
Russia is small compared to China. China GDP size, population size, exports level, are about 8x larger than Russia. If the US and NATO cannot defeat Russia in Ukraine, the more that US cannot defeat CN in TW, once the bombs start flying. So US will get as many useful idiots as possible to be the arena of its proxy war vs china.
For now the agenda is to make Filipinos as angry as possible vs CN. That CN is evil devil (US is angel). That CN is occupier (US is not). That CN violates the "rules based intl order" (rbio) (but US invasions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc are along the rbio).
Instead of PH staying away from a potential huge war US-CN, PH might be dragged as another useful idiot to accept the proxy war. Like what's happening in Ukraine now.
PH problem is how to modernize the economy. Raise agriculture productivity and reduce food inflation. Have lots of electricity supply, houses to have more lights and aircon and avoid blackout. Families riding cars and not tricycles, etc.
It is not our problem if TW would choose war instead of negotiation and compromise with CN. Let TW get the consequences of their decision. PH should not be involved there.
Now the US Congress has approved the $95 billion US taxpayers money to protect other countries' border: $61 B for Ukraine, $26 B for Israel, and $8 B for Taiwan, https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uniparty-reveal-speaker-johnson-pass-953-billion-foreign-aid-package-using-democrats.
Since all major military involvement by the US leads to war, then the possibility of war in Taiwan gets higher. See another report,
US To Convert Pacific Oil Rigs Into Military Bases as Part of Anti-China Buildup
The idea is to create mobile missile defense systems and resupply bases
by Dave DeCamp April 23, 2024
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/23/us-to-convert-pacific-oil-rigs-into-military-bases-as-part-of-anti-china-buildup/
"...The US has been expanding its military footprint in the Philippines and in Pacific island nations to give China more targets that it will have to hit.
Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the former head of US Pacific Air Forces who is now the commander of Air Combat Command, made this clear in comments to Nikkei Asia last year.
“Obviously, we would like to disperse in as many places as we can to make the targeting problem for the Chinese as difficult as possible,” Wilsbach said. “A lot of those runways where we would operate from are in the Pacific Island nations.”
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Ukraine War 2, Two years of war and oil prices, Feb. 24, 2024
Ukraine War 3, The need for negotiations and stop the fighting, February 27, 2024
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