Fisherfolk leaders from Zambales and Bataan confronted Vice President Sara Duterte with a blunt question at Subic Bay Freeport on Sunday. They want her to explain reported transactions worth millions of pesos involving a company with links to her husband. The same firm is said to have dealt with entities based in China and Hong Kong. Their challenge is direct: does that money trail explain what they view as her silence on the harassment of Filipino fishers in the West Philippine Sea? Chinese vessels have menaced local fishing crews in those waters for years, an issue on which she has kept a low profile. For the sector, the pairing of foreign-linked payments and diplomatic quiet reads as more than coincidence. They say the matter stays open until she addresses it publicly.