“President Rodrigo Duterte says no country can diminish the importance of the July 2016 arbitral award by the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the South China Sea.”
What Vera Files found
Previously, Duterte recognized China's refusal to accept the PCA ruling. He had also described the decision as "just a piece of paper" that he would throw into the wastebasket.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 22 September 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 24 September 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Flipflop”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/VsxO7w6QaEg?t=761
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1632277138258067.pdf
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.