OopsMRV 🇵🇭

Have the courtesy to follow me first before tagging me or I'm blocking you.

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

Why have we come to this point? A foreign embassy in Manila now tramples upon our sovereignty without the slightest hesitation.

When, in the entire history of our nation since we won our independence, has a foreign power so brazenly insulted our legislators, our government officials, and the Secretary of our Department of National Defense — and, worst of all, refused to recognize our rightful waters in the West Philippine Sea while spreading misinformation and fake news to undermine our rightful position on our own soil?

As Filipinos, we must never accept this, nor allow these Chinese nationals to grow accustomed to trampling upon our dignity as a people in our own country!

To do so would dishonor the memory of the Filipino heroes who laid down their lives so that we could be free.

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@gmanews ( to the tune of Apo Hiking Society 's song)
🎵San na nga ba... San na nga ba... San na napunta ang pondo mo?🎵

[Funnyandfabs @funnyandfabss]

When the information from your eyes doesnt match your brain.

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@cathyyang They like Inconveniencing their customers 🤣
Dito sa area namin lagi 1k bill lang ang laman ng ATM kung hindi offline.
Worst yung ginawa nilang bigla na regular acct yung ATM ko na no maintaining balance. Ending, pang meds ko na lang, napunta pa sa kanila 200 ko every other month

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@bncdotph Buti hindi natamaan ng ilong yung mga host 😆

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@dzbb Malapit na ma reach ni APC level ni SWOH ...

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@jesusfalcis Kailangan pa rin magalit at aksyunan. Kasi that's how propaganda works.... It normalize bad deeds. Yung tipong tatawanan na lang pero hindi aaksyunan. Ganyan lumala ang corruption sa atin...kasi pinagtawanan na lang. Hindi inaaksyunan.

[Ray Powell @GordianKnotRay]

My response to 🇨🇳@Chinaembmanila's rebuttal of 🇵🇭@jaytaryela's recent post:

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You call the 2016 arbitral award “illegal, null and void” and accuse the #Philippines of bad faith for invoking it. You rest that accusation on the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the #SouthChinaSea and on the principle that agreements must be kept.

Fine. Let’s take that argument at face value.

The DOC commits its signatories to resolve disputes peacefully, respect freedom of navigation, and exercise self-restraint in activities that would “complicate or escalate” tensions. #China signed those commitments too, so let’s measure its actions against its own signed agreement.

📍 China dredged and filled thousands of acres of coral reef to build artificial islands in the Spratlys, converting pristine reefs into military outposts with runways, harbors, sensors and missile systems.

📍 China seized control of Scarborough Shoal in 2012 and has increasingly blocked Filipino fishermen’s access, devastating the livelihoods of communities up and down the Zambales coastline.

📍 China’s coast guard and maritime militia have repeatedly blocked, rammed, water-cannoned and swarmed smaller Philippine vessels to forcibly assert its absurdly vast maritime claims based on unilaterally declared “historic rights.”

Let's recall that on August 11th of last year, China turned a peaceful Philippine patrol into a deadly high-speed intercept in which a 7,500-ton PLA Navy destroyer bore down on a 350-ton Philippine Coast Guard vessel before colliding with a China Coast Guard ship involved in the same pursuit. This happened while China was enforcing an undeclared (but very real) 30-nautical-mile exclusion zone around the Scarborough Shoal--one which clearly violates the freedom of navigation China promised to respect under the DOC.

That is certainly not the peaceful self-restraint China signed up to.

📍 It is aggression masked as law enforcement--until the mask drops and the guided-missile destroyer shows the world its true, violent face.

📍 It is gaslighting--invoking an agreement as a weapon against a smaller neighbor while blatantly ignoring your own obligations under the very same agreement.

📍 It is highly escalatory and precisely the kind of collision risk the 2016 tribunal correctly found unlawful.

Now you urge the Philippines to abandon the award and “return to bilateral dialogue.” But why on earth would any rational party do that? If China routinely abrogates the pledges it made to all of ASEAN under the DOC, why should the Philippines now trust it alone, one-on-one, bound by no rule Beijing is willing to accept above its own coercive will backed by violence?

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

Are we hyping the presence of the Chinese floating platform in Bajo de Masinloc? Of course not. We have more than enough basis to say so, because the Chinese government has always been good at lying—especially when it comes to denying its true intentions in the West Philippine Sea.

Here is a video of Wang Yi in Manila in 1995, where he claimed that the shelter China built on Panganiban (Mischief) Reef—well within the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone—was for civilian purposes only, and would remain so even in the future. But look at that same reef today: a massive illegal reclamation that is now one of China’s largest military bases in the entire South China Sea.

Their claim that they care about the marine environment is just as hollow. They showed no such concern when they bulldozed and buried the reefs and seabed to build their illegal bases across the South China Sea.

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@iampinglacson Ok lang sa kanya yun. Hindi naman daw sa kanya manggagaling ang ibabayad. Tulad nung ipinangako nyang 10k dati sa mga botante nya 🤣

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@gmanews Parang she's having a breakdown.

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@newswatchplusph Pag hindi umayon ang mga justices ng supreme court sa petition nila, next week kasama na din sila sa list ng mga nakatanggap ng maleta ng pera 🤣

[Jesus Falcis 🇵🇭 @jesusfalcis]

❌ Alan Pinocchio (2026): “PNoy said the Filipino is worth fighting for. That’s why gagamitin ko talaga yung Laban sign.”

✅ Pres. Noynoy Aquino (2018): “Alan Peter, I hope your politics is as transparent as our hair.”

Grabe, barado si APC even from the grave ni PNoy.

😂

[Aric Chen | Insights @aricchen]

Beijing wanted to silence one man. Instead, it handed him a global megaphone — and broadcast its own weakness to every capital watching.

On June 11, 2026, China's Foreign Ministry sanctioned Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., his wife Monica Louise "Nikki" Prieto-Teodoro — Manila's special envoy to UNICEF — and their child, barring the family from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao, and freezing all Chinese commercial dealings with them. The "crime"? Telling the truth.

Teodoro's reply, delivered within 24 hours, was textbook moral clarity: "That is truly what they do to those who speak the truth against their deception. Their own countrymen and the others under their control suffer far worse." He vowed to keep defending the nation "in the face of the wickedness they are committing here and even in our seas."

This is the man who branded Beijing's ten-dash claim "the biggest fiction and lie," called the CCP a "schoolyard bully," and at Shangri-La named the PRC a "significant threat" with no sign of long-term goodwill. Punishing a sitting defense minister — and dragging a UNICEF envoy and a child into the blast radius — is not strength. It is the tantrum of a regime that cannot win the argument.

And the coercion is no longer working in isolation. Manila called it "an unfriendly act." Tokyo and Manila are advancing maritime boundary talks east of Taiwan. From Vilnius to Canberra, every sanctioned legislator, every blacklisted minister becomes a node in a hardening democratic immune response. Teodoro will be remembered as the defense chief who refused to flinch — and the moment the bully blinked. @dndphl

Aric Chen Insights

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

Mr. Guo Wei should remember where he stands. He resides here as a guest in the Philippines, yet has the audacity to say our Defense Secretary deserves to “ultimately pay the price” for defending our own country.

Secretary Teodoro has only upheld the rights of the Filipino people in our own waters — affirmed by the 2016 Arbitral Award that China refuses to honor.

Mr. Guo says “people are known by the company they keep.” We agree — so look closely at who fires water cannons at our boats and rams our ships, then blames the nation defending against it.

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@johnnytamad Ano na kaya nangyari sa mga binigyan nila ng ivermectin?

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@nabunturanguy Isama nyo lagyan ng reward yung kasama na bumatok... Dalawa pala sila. Akala ko yung butiki lang ang nambully

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

@jesusfalcis Anong information ang i offer nya ... Yung sapilitang kinuha kay Cabral? Hindi ba considered tainted/tampered evidence na yun?

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

I stand fully behind Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr.

Filipinos are a grateful people. We do not forget genuine help, and we say salamat when thanks is due. But gratitude is not a price tag on our sovereignty. No vaccine, no shipment of fertilizer, and no infrastructure project buys the right to violate our rights in the West Philippine Sea, to harass our fishermen, or to aim water cannons and military-grade lasers at our Coast Guard vessels.

The Secretary did not “bite the hand that feeds.” He simply refused to let that hand cover our eyes while the other hand takes what is ours under UNCLOS and the 2016 Arbitral Award. To question whether long-term good faith exists is not ingratitude — it is honesty.

And if assistance is given only so it can later be waved in our faces to demand our silence, then it was never kindness to begin with — it was leverage. True kindness is never thrown back as a debt. The moment help is turned into a weapon, it ceases to be kindness and becomes coercion.

China is most welcome to be a true friend of the Philippines. But a true friend does not ask you to surrender your sovereignty and sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea as the price of friendship.

[OopsMRV 🇵🇭 @OopsMTG]

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