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“Sinabi ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na walang bansa ang makababawas sa kahalagahan ng July 2016 arbitral award ng Permanent Court of Arbitration sa South China Sea.”
Rodrigo Duterte Claim dated 22 Sep 2021.
Vera Files rated thisFlipflop

What Vera Files found

Dati, kinilala ni Duterte ang pagtanggi ng China na tanggapin ang desisyon ng PCA. Inilarawan din niya ang desisyon bilang "isang piraso ng papel" na itatapon niya sa basurahan.

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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.

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