First, on the Honor Code. Their argument goes: I violated the honor code, challenged it, and then resigned weeks before graduation, leaving my case “unresolved.” Anyone who actually came from the Academy knows that resigning weeks before graduation is the most honorable path one can take. Resignation means you have admitted the violation — and that, as a gentleman bound by the Code, you must leave the portals of the Academy to honor it. To claim that “leaving the academy is easier than facing the Honor Code process” only proves they understand nothing about it.
Second, the far-fetched timeline. They insinuate that after leaving the academy in 2003, roughly twenty three years ago, I “immediately” went to Japan for my master’s and PhD — as if I were groomed for over a decade to destroy China’s reputation. The truth: my postgraduate studies began in 2015, twelve years later. This is deliberately misleading propaganda.
Third, a correction on my role. As spokesperson, I am not leading a “maritime campaign against China.” I am leading transparency efforts that expose China’s illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive actions in the West Philippine Sea. And I don’t lecture anyone about transparency — I simply share with the world the photos and videos of what China unhesitatingly, unflinchingly, and proudly does in the West Philippine Sea.
China doesn’t need my help to destroy its reputation — it does that on camera, every day!
