Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto raised a possible “connivance” among Chinese companies in the Philippines.

“Our AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and PNP (Philippine National Police) should connive, because there seems to be a connivance from them (Chinese companies); they’re entering the PNP, they’re entering the AFP,” Recto said during the Senate deliberations on the proposed 2020 national budget of the Department of National Defense (DND).

“Having said that, let me put on record, (that) there have been security concerns raised with China co-owning the Philippine grid,” he added.

The senator was referring to the National Corporation of the Philippine (NGCP), which is 40-percent owned by the Chinese government-owned State Grid of China.