Social media users have misrepresented old photos of United States military operations in posts falsely claiming they show the delivery of weapons to the Philippines.
The images circulated as a violent South China Sea confrontation -- in which Chinese coast guard personnel brandished weapons and rammed Philippine naval boats -- fuelled growing concerns that Washington could be dragged into the dispute. A spokesman for the Philippine military said the photos showed no such weapons delivery.
It was the latest and most serious incident in a series of escalating confrontations between Chinese and Philippine ships in recent months as Beijing stepped up efforts to push its claims to nearly all of the strategically located waterway. that the violent confrontation fuelled growing concern that the dispute could drag in the United States, Manila's mutual defence partner. Philippine government said it did not consider the clash an"armed attack" that would trigger the treaty.
Colonel Xerxes Trinidad, public affairs chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, said the photos do not show a recent US shipment of military aid to the Philippines. "There was no event on June 22, 2024, where thousands of US military cargo were flown from California to Clark air base," Trinidad told AFP on June 25.The first photo showing piles of cargo set to be loaded onto a plane corresponded to the 51-second mark of a According to the caption, the footage was filmed that same day and shows humanitarian aid bound for Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base in the US state of Delaware.
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