🚨 PROPAGANDA ALERT | China's Latest Territorial Fantasy: "Batanes Belongs to China."
When facts fail, Beijing writes fiction.
Chinese academics now claim that Batanes belongs to China through Taiwan—a narrative with no basis in history, no support in international law, and zero recognition from the international community.
🇵🇭 Reality Check:
Batanes has been an integral part of the Philippines for centuries.
The Ivatan people are Filipino—not subjects of Beijing.
No treaty, map, or internationally recognized legal instrument grants China sovereignty over Batanes.
This isn't scholarship—it's lawfare: using manufactured legal narratives to justify future territorial ambitions.
China already lost its sweeping maritime claims before the South China Sea Arbitration, where the tribunal unanimously rejected the legal basis of its expansive claims in the South China Sea. Inventing new claims over Batanes won't erase that ruling—it only exposes the desperation behind the propaganda.
You cannot redraw borders by rewriting history.
You cannot manufacture sovereignty through symposiums.
And you cannot turn fiction into fact simply by repeating it.
Batanes is Philippine territory. It always has been. It always will be. 🇵🇭
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