Manila protests ‘racist’ portrayal of Filipinos in China Daily videos
- The diplomatic spat is rooted in the ongoing dispute between China and the Philippines over sovereignty in the South China Sea.
- The Philippines has lodged a diplomatic protest with China over what it called the “racist depiction” of Filipinos in a series of videos published by state-backed newspaper China Daily.
- The videos, which depicted Filipinos as monkeys, went “beyond political debate” and resorted to “demeaning, dehumanizing, and racist depictions of Filipinos,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Friday.
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- The diplomatic spat is rooted in the ongoing dispute between China and the Philippines over sovereignty in the South China Sea.
- The Philippines has lodged a diplomatic protest with China over what it called the “racist depiction” of Filipinos in a series of videos published by state-backed newspaper China Daily.
- The videos, which depicted Filipinos as monkeys, went “beyond political debate” and resorted to “demeaning, dehumanizing, and racist depictions of Filipinos,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Friday.
Sources: Al Jazeera