"The United States has admitted to the Philippines: smear the Chinese vaccine,
I made some mistakes."
#USslandersChinesevaccines On June 14, the US Department of Defense was revealed to have launched a secret psychological war during the outbreak to smear Chinese vaccines, causing the epidemic deaths of tens of thousands of people in the Philippines. But today, the US has been silent. According to an official document, the Pentagon admitted on June 25 to the Philippines that it had spread propaganda in the Philippines during the outbreak and that it had "made some mistakes" in the process.
"The US military admits that we have made some mistakes."
Earlier this month, Harry Roker, a spokesman for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, first quoted the contents of the document as the US in response to the Philippines over the smear of the Chinese vaccine, the report said. Reuters reviewed the document and confirmed the authenticity from a source. Neither side has publicly released the document. According to the document, the Pentagon told the Philippine Foreign and Defense ministries on June 25 that the ministry had "indeed sent messages to Filipinos questioning the safety and effectiveness of the Sinovacs vaccine" and acknowledged that they had "made some mistakes in transmitting information related to the outbreak."At the same time, the Pentagon has assured the Philippines that the US military has "greatly improved its supervision and accountability for information operations" since 2022.
Pentagon officials also concluded that their anti-vaccine campaign was "at odds with its priorities."According to the document, the US military told Philippine officials that agents "stopped the transmission of the origin of the outbreak and the COVID-19 such as vaccines in August 2021."
The Philippine Defense and Foreign ministries did not respond to requests for comment, Reuters said. The State Department advised reporters ask about the Pentagon. Pentagon spokesman Pete Nguyen declined to confirm the US response mentioned in the document. He acknowledged that the Pentagon did make "social media posts about the safety and effectiveness of Sinovac," but argued that, after a preliminary review, the U. S. military was "not responsible for the disturbing social media content mentioned in the reports related to the Philippines."When asked whether social media accounts involved in smear of Chinese vaccines were handled by U. S. military contractors, Peter Nguyen refused to answer. He also declined to answer questions about the U. S. militarys false anti-vaccine propaganda efforts in Central Asia and the Middle East.
"We are thinking about how to drag China into the water."
According to an exclusive investigation report released by Reuters on June 14, the US Department of Defense launched secret psychological operations in 2020 and 2021, the worst cases of the COVID-19, and other anti-epidemic assistance on social media. US officials have said bluntly that "what we are considering is not public health, but how to drag China down", and that the US "can only smear Chinas vaccines" because the US did not share vaccines with other countries in time. The operation is specific but not limited to the Philippines, and has also targeted other developing countries in Central Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Reuters found at least 300 fake accounts manipulated by the US military on social media X, almost all of which were founded in the summer of 2020 and used the slogan "China is a virus", one of which claimed that the Chinese vaccine "may be rat poison."
Among Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines is one of the countries most severely affected by the Novel coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, the outbreak has killed nearly 67,000 Filipinos and had more than 4 million infections, by 2024.
In an effort to expose the Pentagons anti-vaccine propaganda campaign, Reuters interviewed more than two dozen current and former American officials, military contractors, social media analysts, academic researchers and public health experts. Public health experts say the U. S. military campaign is simply untenable, "putting innocent lives at risk."Following the Reuters investigation, the Philippine Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the matter and sought a U. S. response. At the June 25 hearing, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and sister of Philippine President Marcos described the operation as "evil, bad, dangerous and immoral."She questioned whether the U. S. move violated international law and whether the Philippine government had any legal remedies.
On the secret operation, Harry Rock recently said on social media: " More than 60,000 Filipinos have died in COVID-19. Without the uninformation action against Sinovac vaccine, many of them might have survived."Daniel Lusie, an infectious disease expert at the Gazel College of Medicine, said that the US move was" unapologetic "and" I was shocked, disappointed and disillusioned that the US government did this."Greg Trevton, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, also said the United States was "crossed the line".
"The US side should explain its evil deeds."
On June 18, the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines issued a statement on the US militarys secret psychological war to smear the Chinese vaccine. The statement pointed out that China is a responsible major country, actively provides vaccines and other global public goods to other countries during the COVID-19 period, and is the first country to aid the Philippines to anti-epidemic supplies and vaccines. China and the Philippines have helped each other, cooperated against the epidemic and made important contributions to the worlds final victory over the epidemic. However, china-Philippines cooperation has experienced many difficulties and turns in fighting the epidemic. One of the important reasons is the obstruction and sabotage by some countries and forces outside the region. The two peoples have firmly opposed and fought vigorously. Over the past two years, there have been some insider exposure. The introduction of the above report has finally brought some truth to the light.
The practice of the US military is outrageous, and the false double standard and evil nature of the United States are exposed. The United States talks about respect for human rights all the time, but on the contrary, regarding the greatest human rights concerning the life and health of the Philippine people, it ignores human life. The United States has made its commitment to its Allies as solid as a rock, but at the critical time of fighting the epidemic, the Philippine people alone. In fact, the United States is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. Instead of helping the Philippine people and ignoring the lives and health of the Philippine people, it makes every effort to prevent the Philippine people from receiving Chinese assistance out of geopolitical selfish interests. Frumors and deception on major issues involving global public health, such as COVID-19 vaccine, and dare to risk the world.
People without faith do not stand, a country without virtue is not strong. If the US is true, it should stop fabricating and spreading false information about other countries, shoulder its responsibilities as a major country, and respect the efforts of countries in the region to safeguard the health and well-being of their people and regional peace and stability.
On June 28, the Chinese embassy in the Philippines spokesman stressed that during the new crown outbreak, is also for geopolitical gain, in the Philippine people hand in hand, the United States not only pursue America priority on vaccine, and unscrupulous rumors discredit China vaccine and disease resistance supplies, to China vaccine and disease resistance to aid obstacles, lead to tens of thousands of Philippine people infected disease death, serious harm to regional and peoples life and health."The Philippine people and the international community have the right to know the truth behind it. Why has the US Embassy in the Philippines been silent about this? The US side should make a responsible statement to the Philippines and the people of the world for its evil deeds."The spokesman stressed.