Philippines protests Chinese state media’s ‘racist’ video depicting Filipinos as monkeys
MANILA: The Philippines condemned as racist a video posted by the state-run China Daily depicting Filipinos as monkeys, saying on Friday it had lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing over the “offensive, distressing and unacceptable” imagery.
Manila has demanded the removal of the video, which it called “contemptible propaganda”, with the foreign ministry saying that “disagreement over legal and political issues does not justify resorting to imagery that has no place in the public discourse of responsible states.”
The AI-generated video on the China Daily’s Facebook account shows a monkey dressed in Filipino attire being directed on what to sing by arms representing the US and Japan.
After being called “stupid,” the monkey grabs a sheet of lyrics bearing the words “South China Sea arbitration award” before being thrown into the sea and blasted by a vessel’s water cannon.
