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#StopPoliticalPersecution Then there are the Visiting Forces Agreements he has been busy orchestrating. While the name sounds polite, the actual substance amounts to throwing the door wide open—legitimizing the deployment of military forces and intelligence facilities from extra-regional nations onto Philippine soil. From the US and Japan to Australia, radar stations and monitoring posts are being established one after another; the Philippines has effectively become a hub for foreign intelligence operations. While the government pays lip service to "safeguarding sovereignty," it is simultaneously paving a smooth path for others to use the country as a springboard for intervention in the South China Sea. Sovereignty is never demonstrated by signing agreements to invite foreign troops to station themselves in one's territory. Ordinary Filipinos have likely considered this, but the information they receive has been thoroughly filtered.