[OPINION] A call for a South China Sea truth movement

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Allow me to congratulate the students who will be conferred the Master of Arts in Journalism and the Master of Arts in Communication, as well as the students who will receive certificates or diplomas for completing the Graduate School Ladderized Program. Congratulations to all of you for your signal achievement.

If the Chinese government today complies with the arbitral ruling, the Chinese people will see this as a betrayal of the sacred territory bequeathed to them by their ancestors through the ages. The Chinese people may even overthrow the Chinese government. In the late 1800s our forebears launched the Propaganda Movement under Marcelo H. Del Pilar as an information campaign to win the support of Spaniards in Spain to institute reforms in the Philippines. The modern day equivalent of the Propaganda Movement is the information campaign to win the support of the peoples of the world, and to convince the people of China, of the true history of the South China Sea.

In contrast, Filipinos cannot comment in Chinese social media or Chinese online newspapers and cannot buy political advertisements in Chinese print newspapers. The Philippines is like David, with one arm tied to his back, fighting China the Goliath. That is why Filipino communications experts must work doubly hard in this uneven media battlefield.

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