A small Baltic nation that has spent decades in the crosshairs of Russian and Chinese information warfare arrived in Manila not with promises, but with blueprints. Lithuania's foreign minister offered the Philippines something rarer than diplomacy — the hard-won institutional knowledge of how a vulnerable country learns to defend its information space and digital sovereignty. In a world where hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace, this transfer of expertise between two nations on opposite edges of great-power competition speaks to a quiet but growing solidarity among the pressured