Immediately After Confrontations at Sea, Chinese and Philippine Partisans Battle to Shape the Narrative Online

When this current phase of the tensions between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea began last February, the narrative struggle was largely one-sided.

The Philippines Coast Guard understood that if it published videos of each of the incidents with their Chinese rivals, they would then be able to shape the narrative online and in the media.

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