‘A lie told a thousand times is still a lie’– Chinese Embassy
THE Chinese Embassy issued a short but terse statement last July 16, 2021, assailing a thinly-veiled front of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for spreading a fabricated report that Chinese vessels anchored at the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea have been dumping human feces in the area, the extent of which can allegedly be seen even in space.
“For a long time, anti-China forces like this company have spared no effort to produce lies and hype up the South China Sea issue to discredit and demonize China, create hatred and anti-China sentiment in the Philippines,” said the embassy, referring to ‘Simularity,’ a US-based company that have been using US military satellites to monitor the WPS/SCS.
Simularity’s latest fabrication even used a 2014 picture of a vessel doing dredging work in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia to create the impression that it was a Chinese vessel dumping human waste in the SCW/WPS because of the brownish trail the dredging produced.
Only last March, Simularity also came out with a misleading report that more than 200 Chinese vessels “manned by Chinese maritime militia” had converged at an area being claimed by the Philippines, but failed to offer any proof.
As if on cue, however, Philippine mainstream media, along with many in the Western media, reported and highlighted both of Simularity’s reports without bothering to check their accuracy.
The Chinese Embassy further noted that the “ultimate goal” of those spreading lies about China “is to sow discord between China and the Philippines so as to serve their own political agenda.”
“Some anti-China forces use fake news to accuse and defame China.
“The Chinese Embassy believes that a lie told a thousand times is still a lie,” the statement added.
