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Gilbert Teodoro

Gilbert Teodoro

Secretary of National Defense of Philippines

Oct 4, 2026

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Watch.
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is just like...
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I have a note here.
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I think this is from China.
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You should have joined the...
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And may I read it? China's position on the South China Sea arbitration is clear, consistent, and firm.
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They have no position.

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Can you talk to me about the danger there and what is actually going on for those who don't follow it closely? Yeah.
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question.
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In the two Shangri-La dialogues I participated in personally, They did not attend or the defense minister did not.
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And they slipped me with this colonel guy together with the trolls that pretend to be journalists and just try to trap you into losing your temper and then capturing you on their camera so they can edit it.
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edited pejoratively for you.
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And in the sole defense dialogue, they did not participate at all.
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Their defense attache was there last year, and he attempted to ask a question, but he did not actually ask a question, but delivered an alternative lecture, which is why I cut him off and said, you should have raised all of these points in the arbitration proceeding.
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but you did not because you would have lost.

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So what brought steel plants to your attention and made it a national security matter rather than a labor or an immigration case?
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So this was the crucial
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internal adjustment that President Pink was to refocus our defensive operations from internal to territorial defense.
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And in so doing, we evolved the comprehensive archipelagic defense concept.
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where we would have to project deterrence capabilities throughout our exclusive economic zone in order to deter unwanted behavior from irresponsible actors.
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And the president has been fully committed to this.
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domestically too, he has been at the forefront of anti-UFW operations, illegal and subversive operations by alien criminal syndicates.
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He has banned offshore gambling establishments which were laundering money for other purposes and corrupting a lot of people.

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So, Secretary, what I'd like to ask you for the final question here for our viewers is, what else should our viewers know about the Philippines and what should they know about the Philippine-U.S. relationship? Well,

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