The National Security Council (NSC) on Saturday raised questions over the charges of espionage against 3 Filipinos nabbed in Beijing, which it said can be seen as a “retaliation” after some of its spies were arrested in the Philippines.
This, as the NSC said that the Filipinos arrested “are former recipients of the Hainan Government Scholarship Program established under the sisterhood agreement between the provinces of Hainan and Palawan.”
The NSC also maintained that those arrested were ordinary Filipinos.
“They are law-abiding citizens with no criminal records and were vetted and screened by the Chinese government prior to their arrival there,” NSC spokesperson Jonathan Malaya…