Well, well, well, NBI Director Jaime Santiago and AFP Chief Brawner, perhaps it’s time you contemplate stepping down from your posts. Apparently, due diligence isn’t in your vocabulary. My goodness! The international community must be having a field day laughing at our expense, thanks to your political grandstanding and embarrassing incompetence. Bravo!!
Let me extend a much-needed education to these two clowns—Santiago and Brawner—regarding the case of this Chinese national, Deng Yuanging, along with two Filipinos, Ronel Jojo Besa and Jason Fernandez. Somehow, you’ve managed to confuse the Chinese national Deng in detention at the moment with an internationally renowned professor of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the University of Science and Technology. Honestly, the sheer level of blunder here deserves a standing ovation, if only for its sheer absurdity. Goodness gracious!
You might want to double-check your sources next time—or better yet, spare us the disgrace and consider other career paths where attention to detail and strict due diligence aren’t critical requirements.
Yet again, these two stooges, Santiago and Brawner, managed to confuse not just themselves but the entire Filipino public. Their blunders are nothing short of spectacular. Case in point: Mr. Deng, the Chinese national currently detained in the Philippines. His name in Chinese characters is 邓元清 (“Deng Yuanqing”), meaning “clear.” But somehow, this was conflated with Prof. Deng Yuanqing, 邓元庆, whose name means “celebration,” a distinguished academic affiliated with the Chinese PLA University of Science and Technology.
So, to clarify for those struggling to differentiate the obvious: 邓元清 (“clear”) refers to the detained Chinese national in PH, while 邓元庆 (“celebration”) refers to the esteemed professor. It is the same as “Pinyin,” but two totally different as far as Chinese characters are concerned, which is more accurate.
A good friend of mine, a reporter, managed to get his hands on a copy of Deng Yuanqing’s student ID (see photo below), the Chinese national in detention in PH. Apparently, Deng, the one in detention, graduated from Yangzhou Industrial Vocational and Technical College, where he majored in oil and petroleum refinery. This Deng was only temporarily recruited by Zhejiang ATTC Automotive Technology Service Co., Ltd. in December last year to fill in for an employee who had to return to China due to family matters. He didn’t sign a short-term contract with the company in this regard.
By the way, Zhejiang ATTC Automotive Technology Service Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company that offers comprehensive international certification services for automotive products, assisting manufacturers in meeting global regulatory standards, a company that guides automotive manufacturers in navigating regulatory complexities and ensures that products meet international safety and quality standards. It is headquartered in Ningbo, Zhejiang. It is a leading enterprise in the domestic automotive technology service sector, with high visibility and a good reputation in the industry. The company services encompass various certifications, including China CCC Certification, EU E/e-Mark Certification, U.S. DOT Certification, Russian GOST-R Certification:
Australian ADR Certification, and Saudi Arabia GCC, SASO Certification, among others. It is a company that provides expertise in navigating these certification processes, ensuring that automotive products comply with the specific regulatory requirements of each target market.
Indeed, the glaring contrast between these two individuals couldn’t be more obvious. One is an internationally renowned academic, while the other is a graduate of a vocational school. And yet, the NBI somehow managed to confuse the detained Deng Yuanqing, who is clearly a vocational graduate, with a prestigious professor from the PLA University of Science and Technology in Nanjing, China.
The level of failure here is nothing short of staggering. It’s as if they didn’t bother doing any basic due diligence before making such a critical mistake and conclusion. How this glaring mistake slipped through the cracks is anyone’s guess. Perhaps it’s time for our officials to invest in a crash course on Chinese linguistics or, better yet, basic due diligence. Let’s hope this embarrassing mix-up serves as a lesson in the importance of precision. After all, a nation’s credibility rests on its ability to get the details right, especially on the international stage. Truly, the NBI’s “efforts” deserve applause. What a spectacular blunder, indeed!!! Bravo!!
Oh, but wait, the blunder doesn’t end there. No.. no…, it continues with a classic gem from NBI Director Santiago, which was proudly showcased during his statement at the NBI press conference on January 30, 2025. Santiago, ever the paragon of clarity, said, and I quote…”.
“When we finished the second phase of our operation, here we are again. They are also saying that Deng Yuanging is not a graduate of PLA University. Here, you can see this is open source. You can see on the bottom HTTPS. If you open this, remember, this is open information. There is no need for intelligence. Just open this, and this information will come out. Let’s show it. Here, you can see that he is really a graduate of the People’s Liberation Army University in Nanjing, China. This is open source. We didn’t gather this information by ourselves. Even you, you can open your cellphones, you can see this.”
Clearly, this is the level of meticulousness we’re dealing with. It’s almost as if the NBI intends to outdo itself with mistake after mistake and blunder after blunder. How charming!! Wow!
Indeed, the NBI presented reporters with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) website, showcasing two papers by Yuanqing Deng, the so-called internationally renowned professor supposedly connected to the Chinese PLA. However, the page, as it stands, contains nothing more than the titles of his published papers. No photographs, no additional details (see image below). The research topics attributed to this “Yuanqing Deng” are high-level computer technologies, such as “input bits, output bits, strict standards, block ciphers, decoding, linear transformations, look-up tables, part of algorithms, and permutations.”
Intrigued, we decided to conduct our own research. A friend of mine used the same paper from “Yuanqing Deng” to search for the Chinese academic engine Baidu. Interestingly, we found the same paper, but the author’s name is Deng Yuanqing, a professor at the PLA University of Science and Technology. Prof. Deng Yuanqing has published more than 100 papers in both Chinese and English, with many included in international academic journals. He has also participated in numerous international conferences in his field. This professor is a recognized authority in electrical and electronic engineering (see photo below).
The distinction here is so painfully obvious; it’s almost impressive how the NBI managed to get it wrong. The person they’ve been parading around as an allegedly a Chinese spy connected to the PLA is a mistaken identity. This Deng in detention does not even come close to Prof. Deng, who is an internationally accomplished genius, an esteemed academic, and a recognized authority in his field, something the NBI might have noticed had they bothered to do, you know, any proper research and proper and strict due diligence on a sensitive issue as this one. Instead, they’ve managed to confuse him with someone who is very much not the same person. What a masterclass in incompetence!! BRAVO!!
Seriously, how did someone without a basic understanding of conducting due diligence lead the NBI and the AFP? Really?! This is the level of incompetence we’re dealing with? Goodness gracious!
Just for your information, Santiago and Brawner, in China, there are two ways to learn the Chinese language: one is using “Pinyin,” which is the phonetic system, and the other, the more effective route, is studying the Chinese characters themselves to grasp the language truly. When conducting investigations on Chinese nationals, you don’t use “Pinyin” in search engines like some amateurs. And you definitely don’t rely on Western search engines because they’re absolutely useless in China. What you need are the Chinese characters of the person you’re investigating and Chinese search engines like Baidu, that’s how you get relevant information. Otherwise, you’ll be left chasing dead leads, or worse, just dealing with gossip or “Chika.”
Hey Mr. President Marcos Jr! Is it possible that the entire world is laughing at us right now because of the endless blunders and embarrassments of your administration? Truly, it’s really amazingly crazy to watch! Here’s a radical suggestion—how about firing the incompetent people in your government? Oh, and if you can’t even manage to keep your own people from creating one disaster/blunder/embarrassment after another, then maybe, just maybe, you consider resigning, will you??? If you can’t handle your job, let alone the people in your own government, maybe someone else should. Duh!
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