Manipulated images do not show US-China maritime ‘clash’
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MSN reports an Armed Forces Philippines story,

YouTube videos viewed tens of thousands of times in the Philippines do not show a military confrontation between the United States and China in the South China Sea, a hotly contested waterway that has long been a source of tension in Asia Pacific. The videos included compilations of old warship photos — some of which were manipulated — and there have been no official reports of a US-China spat.

“US Coast Guard aggressively confronts a Chinese warship circling near Ayungin,” reads the title of a YouTube video posted on February 7, 2024

The video is no longer on YouTube, but undoubtably, it is still out there somewhere.

Someone created a video reporting an incident between the US Coast Guard and the China Coast Guard that never happened.

The story shows how the images were manipulated.