Garrett To

[Department of National Defense - Philippines @dndphl]

READ | 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁👇

[🇺‌ 🇳‌ 🇴‌ 🤓 @_MIGZ29]

sɪɴᴜɴɢᴀʟɪɴɢ sɪ ᴘᴇᴛʀᴀ 🙄🤷‍♂️

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

Thank you Prof Jay Batongbacal for pointing out that the Chinese government lies brazenly and cannot be trusted with the truth.

[Garrett To @Garrett9302822]

@gy12345654321 @jaytaryela 😭🤣

[marvièn @mvn_dn]

y’all look at this documentary on the Philippines from 1959 😭

[Nguyen Ho @NguyenHo1096438]

China employed the most demeaning and worst way to uphold its propaganda.

When you can't accept the lawful ruling against you, you choose such pathetic ways.

𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐍𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓.

[Garrett To @Garrett9302822]

@Mlopfo @jaytaryela Imagine talking big about IQ when you can't even grasp basic English. Fix your grammar before you try to insult anyone's intelligence. Turns out I was right—the AI genuinely has more brain cells than you. 🤣

[Garrett To @Garrett9302822]

@biancadava Hindi nila gagawin yon @jaytaryela walang bayag yung mga senator na yon eh. Ampaw lang sila

[Bianca Dava-Lee 🐱 @biancadava]

Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea Rear Admiral Jay Tarriela expects senators who previously called on him to apologize to China over a caricature of Chinese President Xi Jinping to also demand an apology from Beijing over a video depicting the Philippines as a “stupid monkey.”

Tarriela was referring to a video uploaded by China Daily, a state-controlled media company, showing the monkey with the trademark Philippine salakot and barong being controlled by the United States and Japan to push the arbitration case decision in the South China Sea.

“Ngayon, ang tanong ko sa mga senador na nagsabing ako raw ang nag-cross ng line last January dahil sa caricature na iyon, hihingan din ba ng mga senador natin na ito ang Chinese Embassy ng sorry dahil tinawag tayong unggoy?” Tarriela said. @ABSCBNNews

[Garrett To @Garrett9302822]

@gy12345654321 @jaytaryela Are they twins? 🤭🤣

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

UPDATE: The DFA has filed a diplomatic protest against China Daily over its "demeaning, dehumanizing, and racist" depiction of Filipinos in an AI editorial on the 2016 Arbitral Award.

DFA Usec. Leo Herrera-Lim met with Chinese Amb. Jing Quan to reiterate the country's demand to take the editorial down. | via @zenhernandez

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER
SECRETARY EDUARDO SL OBAN JR
17 July 2026 | Manila, Philippines

The National Security Council condemns in the strongest terms the Al-generated video released by Chinese state media portraying the Filipino people through racist and dehumanizing imagery while promoting false narratives on the West Philippine Sea. Far from satire, the video is a calculated attempt to discredit a legal truth that has remained legally intact for a decade.

The 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award remains a landmark affirmation of the rule of law in the South China Sea. It declared that China's so-called nine-dash line has no legal basis under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It affirmed the Philippines' sovereign rights within its exclusive economic zone and reinforced a principle that protects every nation, large or small: that rights at sea are determined by international law, not by power, intimidation, or manufactured narratives.

Those findings remain unchanged. They have not been reversed, modified, or diminished. Ten years later, China's inability to accept the facts and legal principles of the Arbitral Award has led the party-state to abandon reason in favor of bullying and racist imagery intended to distract from its unlawful actions. When a legal position cannot be sustained before the law, the effort shifts to undermining the law itself, and those who uphold it. Racist caricatures and manufactured narratives cannot erase legal facts. They only expose the absence of a credible legal answer.

The National Security Council calls on the People's Republic of China to reject the use of state-sponsored propaganda that seeks to dehumanize and degrade the dignity of any people. We urge China to set aside the "last refuge" of insults and instead demonstrate the restraint, responsibility, and respect for international law that build confidence and foster cooperation among nations. Adherence to the final and binding 2016 Arbitral Award, alongside respect for truth and human dignity, remains the only durable foundation for peace, stability, and mutual trust in our region.

We likewise call on the Filipino people not to allow provocation to obscure what matters most. The cartoon is fleeting; the 2016 Arbitral Award endures. The Award affirmed our lawful rights and rejected claims without legal foundation. Let us remain united, confident in the rule of law, and steadfast in protecting our sovereignty, our sovereign rights, and the principles that safeguard all nations. ###

[GMA News @gmanews]

CHINESE MEDIA ALLEGEDLY DEPICTS FILIPINOS AS MONKEYS

Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro on Thursday night scored China Daily for allegedly depicting Filipinos as monkeys in a Facebook post that criticized the arbitral award that invalidated China’s claims in the West Philippine Sea.

Read the whole report here:
https://t.co/jwLFwoAlBX

[Win Gatchalian @WinGatchalian74]

There is no room for racism in free speech.

I am expressing deep concern over the July 10 video by a China-based media outlet depicting Filipinos as monkeys in connection with the 2016 Arbitral Award.

Freedom of expression, even in political disputes, is not a license to dehumanize people. Racism has no place in any society that values truth and civility.

I am calling for a return to intelligent, respectful dialogue among all parties, urging media and institutions to exercise greater circumspection and refrain from producing or circulating such materials in the future.

Disagreements between nations should sharpen our reasoning, not our prejudices. We call on all sides to be more circumspect and to choose dialogue over derision.

In a free society, mass media and communications platforms carry a social responsibility to uphold truth and civility in public discourse.

Kinokondena natin ang pang-aabuso at pangungutya sa dignidad ng mga Pilipino.

Malaki ang responsibilidad ng media sa paghubog ng pananaw ng mga bansa sa isa’t isa, at hindi ito dapat gamitin sa maling paraan.

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

READ: The DFA strongly condemned a China Daily AI-generated cartoon on the 2016 Arbitral Award depicting a monkey in a Barong Tagalog being forced to sing karaoke by supposed US and Japanese forces, calling it “blatantly demeaning, dehumanizing, and racist” to Filipinos.

The editorial content was posted on China Daily’s verified Facebook account last July 10, 2026. | via @zenhernandez

[Unknown Traveler 🇺🇸 @nothanksfrankie]

Good. There's no place in this world for the kind of immaturity the Chinese are demonstrating right now

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

READ: The Department of National Defense on Thursday condemned a video posted by China Daily that portrays Filipinos as monkeys, with Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. calling it a reflection of the “moral and intellectual bankruptcy of China’s propaganda machine.”

In a statement, Teodoro said the video was a “revealing insight” into what the Chinese Communist Party thinks of the Filipino people.

“This mockery of the lawful 2016 Arbitral Award and the video’s glorification of violence against the Filipino people and soldiers expose the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of China’s propaganda machine,” Teodoro said. | via @biancadava

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

‘PILIPINAS HUWAG MAGPALINLANG! ANG NALILINLANG AY NASISIIL’

Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro on Thursday condemned China Daily’s post depicting Filipinos as monkeys, calling it a mockery of the 2016 Arbitral Award.

“Such contemptible propaganda is a disgrace to any State that claims to exercise responsible regional leadership. It reveals the weakness of a government that resorts to racism, threats, and manufactured hatred because it has utterly failed to defend its ridiculous claims through reason, evidence, or law,” the statement read. (Facebook/Department of National Defense - Philippines)

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

Racist Chinese state media video depicting the Philippines as a 'monkey' draws outrage

https://t.co/VEYbU1bpDf

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

DND Press Release
July 16, 2015
Releasing Authority: Asec. Arsenio R. Andolong

STATEMENT

The post of China Daily depicting the Filipinos as monkeys, is a revealing insight into what the Chinese communist apparatus thinks of the Filipino people.

This mockery of the lawful 2016 Arbitral Award and the video’s glorification of violence against the Filipino people and soldiers expose the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of China’s propaganda machine.

Such contemptible propaganda is a disgrace to any State that claims to exercise responsible regional leadership. It reveals the weakness of a government that resorts to racism, threats, and manufactured hatred because it has utterly failed to defend its ridiculous claims through reason, evidence, or law.

We are justified in our policy of no Ministerial or AFP defense engagements or contacts with the CCP or any of its agencies.

The recent spate of schizophrenic behavior of the Chinese Communist Party is too clear to disregard or to ignore. This latest act of dehumanization further reveals them as neither a secure and confident actor nor a trustworthy neighbor.

Pilipinas huwag magpalinlang! Ang nalilinlang ay nasisiil.

Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr.
Secretary
Department of National Defense