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MANILA, Philippines – Journalist groups in the Philippines on Wednesday, March 27, criticized China’s foreign ministry and its embassy in Manila over claims that journalists who embed in the Philippines’ rotation and resupply missions to Ayungin Shoal “manipulate” their work to “project the Philippines as a victim.” 

“The association strongly rejects and condemns the false, baseless claims by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying and the Chinese Embassy in Manila that journalists ‘manipulate the videos they recorded’ in South China Sea to ‘project the Philippines as a victim,” said the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) in a statement. 

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), meanwhile, said in a separate statement that it “…

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