A YouTube video falsely suggests that the vessels from the US, Japan, and Australia are meant to counter Chinese aggression against Philippine vessels
Battleships from the US, Japan, and Australia will retaliate against China over its recent acts of hostility in the West Philippine Sea.The claim was made in a Facebook video posted on August 29, which has gained 54,000 views, 1,800 reactions, and 76 shares from a page with 135,000 followers. The same video is also posted on YouTube, with 49,632 views and 611 likes as of writing.
In the video, the narrator implies that the foreign vessels are meant to retaliate against China amid recent tensions in the West Philippine Sea, Manila’s term for the waters in the South China Sea under its exclusive economic zone.
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