VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video FALSELY claims to show US, PH forces destroying Chinese vessel
The video circulated as the 39th iteration of Balikatan, the largest annual PH-US training exercise, kicked off on April 22.
The video circulated as the 39th iteration of Balikatan, the largest annual PH-US training exercise, kicked off on April 22.
Xi did not say “he proposed to surrender respectfully,” but instead said he “proposed mutual respect” between the U.S. and China.
The figure was taken from an initial intelligence report by the AFP that emerged a week before the spurious video was published, stating that there was a supposed influx of 4,600 Chinese students in Cagayan.
A YouTube video claimed that a sale involving the West Philippine Sea (WPS) took place during the time of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte and that China has shown the public a contract to prove it. This is not true. While both Duterte and the Chinese government have admitted to having a “gentleman’s agreement” over maritime activities […]
The fleet shown in the spurious thumbnail does not show a real-life event. It is an AI-generated stock image.
Sinabi ng “nakasindak” na Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na hindi alam ng kanyang administrasyon ang kontrobersyal na “gentlemen’s agreement” umano sa pagitan ni dating pangulong Rodrigo Duterte at ni Pangulong Xi Jinping ng China sa West Philippine Sea (WPS). Tinanong si Marcos sa isang panayam noong Abril 10 kung ang kasunduan umano ay “naglagay sa […]
Ayungin Shoal (international name: Second Thomas Shoal) is part of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Philippines based on a 2016 arbitral ruling in the Hague, contrary to the claim of United States (U.S.) ambassador to China Nicholas Burns that it is a Philippine “sovereign territory.” Burns also erred in saying that the International […]
Just this Saturday, the Philippine military reported that the CCG fired a water cannon at a supply vessel en route to Ayungin, causing damage to the ship.
There are no official reports from the Department of National Defense nor the Armed Forces of the Philippines that such an incident took place in Bajo de Masinloc, an atoll which is part of the country’s 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone that is being claimed by China.
A YouTube video claims that the Philippines sank 300 Chinese fishing vessels amid rising tensions in the West Philippine Sea. This is not true. The video used and edited a report about the Philippine Coast Guard’s (PCG) arrest of 10 Chinese fishermen in 2016. Posted on Jan. 15, the nine-minute and 8-second video claims that […]