By Pearl Gumapos
The Chinese Embassy in the Philippines on Friday released a statement condemning the United States-based firm Simularity’s act of “fabricating facts, violating professional ethics, and maliciously spreading fake news against China.”
“For a long time, anti-China forces like this company have spared no efforts to produce lies and hype up the South China Sea issue to discredit and demonize China, create hatred and anti-China sentiments in the Philippines,” the embassy said.
The embassy claimed that these “anti-China” forces have formed “complete routines” wherein some foreign organizations issue a fabricated report, and then some irresponsible media follow up to spread fake news.
“The Chinese Embassy believes that a lie told a thousand times is still a lie. Any rational person will see through the tricks. China is willing to work with countries along the coast of the South China Sea, including the Philippines, to eliminate interference and jointly maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea,” the embassy said.
The embassy also accused the firm of sowing discord between China and the Philippines.
“Their ultimate goal is to sow discord between China and the Philippines so as to serve their own political agenda,” the embassy said.
Simularity on Monday said human waste and sewage from hundreds of Chinese ships in South China Sea and parts of the West Philippine Sea were causing massive marine damage.
Providing satellite data imagery of the acts of the Chinese vessels, Simularity in an online forum said that Chinese ships have been dumping waste and sewage everyday for several years now. –rir
