Guo: I am not a spy, I love the Philippines

Ex-mayor loses cool over Chinese spy documentary

- SHEILA CRISOSTOMO

The usually calm and collected Alice Guo seemed to have lost her cool at a House of Representatives' quad committee hearing on Friday as she was confronted with allegations raised in a documentary by a self-confessed Chinese spy that she had worked for Beijing's intelligence and security services.

Shown a portion of a documentary by foreign news outlet AI Jazeera featuring Chinese spy She Zhijiang, the dismissed mayor became visibly agitated and vehemently denied knowing She.

Asked if she knew She Zhijiang, Guo started squirming in her seat and replied: "I don't know him. And I hope, Your Honor, Mr. Chair, I can get the details. I want to file a case. I don't know them." It was Davao Oriental Rep. Cheeno Almario who presented the video.

"Mr. Chair, I'd like to point out to this committee that even if we have been making our own research, pulling up our own inquiries, this is another source from a completely different party and is unrelated to what we do," Almario told the quad committee, stressing the significance of the information obtained from the documentary.