Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
IT is astonishing how fake news has dominated newspaper reports on China's alleged bullying and violation of international law by blocking our Navy's attempts to supply the Marine contingent stationed at the BRP Sierra Madre. The vessel is a rusting dilapidated LST deliberately grounded in 1999 by the Estrada administration at Ayungin Shoal in the Spratlys to represent our claims over that area in the Spratlys.
The fake news I refer to is always reported whenever confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels break out at the shoal that most people do not recognize as false claims. The Philippine Daily Inquirer's version of this appeared in its report the other day on the water-cannon blasting by a Chinese vessel of a Philippine attempting to supply the Sierra Madre:
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