A video posted on YouTube and Facebook (FB) passed off an old photo of the Japan Coast Guard firing a water cannon at a North Korean fishing vessel to claim that the incident was between the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and a Chinese vessel in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). This is not true.
On May 5, a YouTube channel posted the eight-minute and 23-second video with the headline:
“Good Job! Pilipinas harap-harapan umanong binomba ng water cannon ang isang Chinese vessel sa WPS (The Philippines allegedly directly bombed with water cannon a Chinese vessel in the WPS).”
Its thumbnail features a vessel labeled the “Philippine Coast Guard” firing a water cannon at a smaller fishing vessel with a Chinese flag. At the bottom right are images of President Xi Jinping and President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos. The text in the thumbnail also states that the “Philippines retaliated against China.”
A narrator in the video further claimed that it was “reported” that the Chinese vessel “suddenly blocked” the PCG. Allegedly, the PCG ended up using water cannons against the vessel when it did not go away.
This is false. The photo used in the thumbnail and video actually shows a Japan Coast Guard (JCG) vessel, not PCG, firing water cannon at a North Korean fishing boat, not Chinese, near Yamatotai fishing ground in Japan, and not in the WPS.
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