“Vietnam has the most features occupied in the South China Sea with 22. China has 14, the Philippines has eight, Malaysia has 14 and Taiwan has one.”
What Vera Files found
The numbers Marcoleta cited are incorrect and outdated. They do not correspond to land features in the South China Sea claimed by each country, but the number of outposts put up in the Spratly Islands, which is only a portion of the disputed waters.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodante Marcoleta made this claim around 3 February 2025. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 11 February 2025, 8 days later. Its rating was “Inaccurate”.
Rodante Marcoleta has 14 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn-MbwNUTIw&t=16044s
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