“Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. apologized to the Chinese ambassador for his strongly-worded tweets over China's occupation of disputed areas within the West Philippine Sea.”
Harry Roque
Presidential Spokesperson. Claim dated 4 May 2021.
Vera Files rated thisFalse
What Vera Files found
Locsin said he apologized only to his “friend” and counterpart, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and “nobody else.”
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In short
Harry Roque (Presidential Spokesperson) made this claim around 4 May 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/AviDyVh4T0g?t=2267
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