In today's #dailysoup, I'll introduce a Filipino political analyst, think-tank director, and Pandesal Forum resource person, Bobby Tuazon.
He's known for writing for Chinese state-owned media, as well as his pro-China and pro-Russia peepotalking points.
1/21
Tuazon is currently the director of a Filipino public policy and research think-tank named the "Center for People Empowerment in Governance" or CenPEG.
2/21
As a former head of a pol-sci committee at the University of the Philippines, the most prestigious uni in my country, Tuazon possessed substantial academic credentials, with 300+ scholarly works written for 25 years.
However, from the inside, it is a different story.
3/21
Tuazon serves as an opinion columnist for a CCP-owned media outlet, CGTN. He also appeared at Global Times, the "Fox News of China".
For more info about Global Times, you may refer to this #vatniksoup entry from @P_Kallioniemi:
4/21 https://t.co/zKWY8kvebK
Tuazon is also a resource person in the Pandesal Forum, a series of forums at the Kamuning Bakery Cafe known for being a hangout place for blatant Filipino vatniks x pro-China peepotalkers, including Anna Malindog-Uy and Sass Rogando Sasot.
5/21
Despite substantial academic credentials, Tuazon ended up spewing pro-China and pro-Russia peepotalking points in his articles and during Pandesal Forum conferences.
6/21
Tuazon's stance has been somewhere along the lines of "the US is unreliable", "the US is collapsing coz it excludes other countries", "the multipolar order under China and Russia is rising, so just deal with it", and "America did bad things, so China is the good guy".
7/21
For example, during a Pandesal Forum conference, Tuazon peepotalked about "US exclusion of countries like Singapore and Thailand from Biden's Summit for Democracy" and "US decline".
He said something along the lines of "the US is doing a Cold War mindset in Asia".
8/21
Two years after the 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff, Tuazon peepotalked on suggestions in a Global Times article that were something along the lines of "the US should not use EDCA or engage in provocative military acts against China's claims in the SCS/WPS".
9/21
Four months after pro-China Filipino leader Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency, Tuazon expressed concern on Duterte's distancing from US, but however, he said that "Duterte's policy to distance from the US is on the right track coz US credibility is declining".
10/21
Tuazon did a cocktail of pro-China and pro-Russia peepotalking remarks when he said that "US military power will be irrelevant by a..."parallel order" of China, Russia, and other emerging powers".
Moreover, Tuazon called Duterte's "pivot to China" as a "balancing act",...
11/21
...and suggested "negotiations with China to use SCS resources with Chinese and Russian technology". Meanwhile, Tuazon praised the BRI as a "sign of winning Chinese economic diplomacy".
In reality, both the BRI and Duterte's "pivot to China" led to bad endings.
12/21
In a CGTN article, Tuazon called the US' FONOPS in the SCS as "provocative", adding that the "US is militarily encircling China".
Tuazon also blamed the US for "formenting tensions in Taiwan", calling the US as "duplicitous" and a "violator of the One-China Policy".
13/21
While Pelosi was visiting Taiwan in August 2022, Tuazon, during a Pandesal Forum conference, reiterated the "US-is-provoking-Taiwan" peepotalking remark, accusing the US for "driving independence movements in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet".
14/21
In reality, China is the aggressor provoking Taiwan while the US and its allies are just defending the stability of the Indo-Pacific from Chinese aggression.
Moreover, the adverse political and economic conditions in China are the ones driving the independence movements.
15/21
In 2021 while there were debates on Duterte's decision to scrap the VFA, Tuazon, despite the article's title "VFA is for keeps", suggested "PH-China cooperation projects to solve the SCS dispute", while saying that the VFA has "an onerous character".
16/21
One day before Russia invaded Ukraine in 02/24, Tuazon wrote the article "The Russians are Coming!", which was filled with "NATO expansion" and anti-West peepotalking.
Then, he claimed that "Putin sent troops to eastern Ukraine to defend the area from Ukrainian forces".
17/21
Few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in 02/24, Tuazon wrote the article "A quest for peace in Europe", which was filled with blatant pro-Russia peepotalking remarks.
For example, Tuazon claimed that "The historical roots...show that Russia was provoked by the US and...
18/21
...its NATO allies...", with Tuazon adding that "The armed option was the only way...", indicating that he believed in something along the lines of "Russia was just defending itself from NATO expansion".
I saw some more "NATO expansion" peepotalking in Tuazon's article.
19/21
Tuazon blurted an infamous pro-Russia peepotalking remark when he said "the 2014 Maidan Revolution was a US-led coup from Victoria Nuland".
He claimed that "the war in the Donbass was launched by Ukraine against ethnic Russians" and "Ukraine violated the Minsk Agreement".
20/21
Then, the EU's Ambassador to the Philippines, Luc Veron, wrote an article successfully debunking Tuazon's pro-Russia peepotalking remarks.
21/21
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