“Responding to a question about the impending depletion of the Malampaya gas field, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said "the Malampaya fields, the natural gas fields that lie within our baselines and within our exclusive economic zone and that again is being questioned in certain cases, certain areas by China.”
What Vera Files found
Marcos confused Reed Bank with Malampaya. Reed Bank “has been adjudged by the South China Sea Arbitral Award to be part of the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone,” says international law expert Romel Bagares.
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In short
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos (Philippine President) made this claim around 4 May 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 10 May 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “Inaccurate”.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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