“We will continue to use the 2016 arbitral award to assert our territorial rights.”
What Vera Files found
Four months ago, then-presidential aspirant Marcos Jr. argued that the Philippines was “left with only one option” in dealing with its overlapping claims with China on the West Philippine Sea: bilateral agreement.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. made this claim around 26 May 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 27 May 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has 31 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 20 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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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.