Months after TikTok banned MediaUnlocked, an affiliate channel of the Chinese state-run media giant China Daily, the page has been reinstated with its original number of followers and likes. However, all content related to the West Philippine Sea has apparently been deleted.
When Rodrigo Duterte was president, he discarded the landmark arbitral ruling the Philippines had won at the international tribunal in The Hague as a piece of paper destined for the waste bin.
More Filipinos would take the American position than side with China over the West Philippine Sea dispute, a recent survey has found.
: A manifesto shared by a pro-China personality falsely claimed that the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement between the Philippines and the United States is banned under the constitution.
Last month, in a deadly clash in Lanao del Norte province, Islamist militants affiliated with the Middle East-based Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) killed six commandos from the Philippine Army’s elite Scout Ranger battalion.