Chinese students or prepositioned spies?

so what are those Chinese students doing in the Northern Philippines ?

 

Two Cagayan Valley lawmakers said the presence of large numbers of Chinese nationals in the region and other parts of the country pose a risk to the country’s national security and economy, particularly since these foreigners had been involved in “spurious schemes.”

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Lara, in his Resolution No. 1666 dated March 20, noted “an alarming increase in the number of Chinese citizens coming into the province of Cagayan as students enrolled in the various higher education institutions from the past to the current year.”

the article then goes on to list various shady schemes by so called Chinese businessmen, and also notes that the students are in the Philippine legally.

but two EDCA sites are in that area Enhanced Defense Cooperation Arrangement (EDCA) which are bases of shared US and Philippine military.

So are they students, drug dealers, or prepositioned Chinese military, to spy on these bases to find out what is going on as part of their plan to invade Taiwan?