Chinese media’s ‘racist’ video of monkey in Filipino costume draws Manila’s rebuke ⁠55%

By No Author⁠43%

7/17/2026, 11:36:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Indoctrination, and Recency Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 53.8% saturation with 85 hits. Analysis detected 518 faulty-reasoning hits from 158 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠55% (9,526 of 21,176 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 55.00% of the article peer group.

The China Daily’s AI-generated video of a monkey wearing Filipino national costume has triggered a diplomatic protest from the Philippines, raising tensions days before Beijing’s top diplomat joins a regional meeting in Manila. 
The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs said the content from the Chinese state media was “deeply offensive, distressing, and unacceptable.” 
The animated video also depicted the monkey as acting on orders from U.S. and Japan, and being hit by a water cannon. 
It also called the 2016 international arbitral ruling that rejected Beijing’s expansive claims over the South China Sea as “litter.” 
“The Philippines demands that the offensive material be taken down, calls for the immediate cessation of such irresponsible content, and urges China to uphold dignity, respect, and truth in public discourse,” the department said in a statement late Thursday. 
It later said that a formal protest was lodged on Friday morning. 
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158 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker45%attributed speech87writer words
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Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 0.0% coveragePhilippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coveragePhilippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs • 39 words • 100.0% coveragePhilippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs • 12 words • 0.0% coverage
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71 attributed words100% of attributed speech75% writer coverage
0%42.5%85.0%Indoctrination+83.1 ptsWriter: 0.0%Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs: 83.1%83.1%Unattributed Quote+28.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs: 28.2%28.2%Quote-first Misdirection-13.8 ptsWriter: 13.8%Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-13.8 ptsWriter: 13.8%Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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