What's the craziest thing you saw today?

Jean-Marie Valheur

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What's the craziest thing you saw today?

The mayor of a city in the Philippines, Alice Guo, has come under fire in recent weeks. Guo had presented herself as “half-Chinese”, the daughter of a Filipina mother and a Chinese-Filipino immigrant father. Turns out, she has likely been lying and she may never have been Filipino at all.

There are no records of Alice Guo being born anywhere in the Philippines. Her father turned out to be a Chinese citizen, not a Filipino citizen at all. And the woman claimed to be her Filipina mother (a maid) wasn’t… the whole thing seems to have been a charade. It’s a wild story. Because one cannot be foreign-born and run for office. So if it was discovered Guo is, in fact, not a Filipina, she’d be removed from her post as mayor.

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 She insists she is a “love child” but media and political adversaries are calling her a “Chinese spy”.

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Alice Guo has been linked to illegal casinos, offshore gambling and even a human trafficking ring. Authorities believe she may be a Chinese ‘sleeper agent’.

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 China and the Philippines have had a lot of geopolitical tensions over the South China Sea and to infiltrate a foreign adversary isn’t the type of tactic Beijing would shy away from.

It’s a fascinating case. Is Alice Guo who she says she is, or is she not? And if not… why did she lie about her ethnicity and nationality? Common consensus in the Philippines now seems to be that she may be a Chinese spy. She’s under police investigation as we speak.

Footnotes

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Alice Guo may have lied about Filipino mother — senators

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Philippines: Mayor Alice Guo says she is a love child, not China spy

[3] The case of Alice Guo: How raiding a human trafficking ring uncovered a possible Chinese “sleeper agent” in the Philippines