VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte DID NOT say Aquino, Carpio ‘sold’ WPS to China
The 16-minute video’s content, composed of two clips, also did not support the claim in its headline.
The 16-minute video’s content, composed of two clips, also did not support the claim in its headline.
The clip, being passed off as "breaking news", spliced a recent news report with a 2017 statement of President Rodrigo Duterte on the country's territorial dispute with China.
There was no reference to Russia getting angry at China over the territorial dispute.
Duterte’s most recent comment on the country’s maritime controversy with China came on April 19 — seven days after the misleading FB video was published.
The posts was falsely labeled “breaking news."
Sa loob lamang ng dalawang araw, naiba ang posisyon ni Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. tungkol sa pagpasa ng bagong coast guard law ng China — na pinapayagan nitong paputukan ang mga banyagang sasakyang pandagat sa teritoryo na inangkin ng China. Mula sa "wala tayong pakialam," tinawag niya itong isang “verbal na banta ng giyera" sa mga lalabag dito.
In just two days, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. went from saying the passage of China’s new coast guard law — which allows it to fire on foreign vessels in China-claimed maritime areas — was “none of our business,” to calling it a “verbal threat of war” to those who will violate it.
Will China have its cake and eat it too at the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)?
Three of the four clips were from a gas leak in India.
The post skews a statement the Philippine ambassador to Japan made in 2019.