Seems to me the Philippines is doing it in order to distract their populace from their lackluster performance in every economical, societal and developmental metric.More people care about football than about the Philippines (with all due respect to the Filipino members here)
Social Media stories about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Social Media stories about wtf island/shoal
There is no propaganda value. If the Philippines wanted propaganda value, they should pay Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift to make the resupply run.
I mean people like to harp how ROC performs better than PRC because of 'democracy', so they should support them. But when you look at the Philippines vs China... there really is nothing there.