“I would have to remind everyone that China never conquered us; never invaded the Philippines; never attempted, in any way, to take us over.”
What Vera Files found
The 2016 arbitral award on the South China Sea dispute, which nullified Beijing’s expansive nine-dash line claim, ruled that China violated the Philippines’ sovereign rights on at least four counts. These include China’s unauthorized construction of artificial islands in Mischief Reef, which is within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Imee Marcos made this claim around 1 June 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 13 June 2022, 12 days later. Its rating was “Needs Context”.
Imee Marcos has 18 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/v1W3tQtkrKQ?t=1836
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