Manila, May 6 -- Surigao del Norte 2nd District Rep. Robert Ace Barbers on Monday denounced the continuing lies, false narratives and propaganda from the Chinese government on West Philippine Sea (WPS) issues.

Barbers issued the statement after Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro debunked the latest "charade" made by a Chinese Embassy official that there exists a "new model" or gentlemen's agreement meant as "confidence-building measures to avoid conflict in the WPS."

"The claim made by a Chinese Embassy official, I believe, is an outright and calculated lie, and forms part of their propaganda intended or designed to veer away and/or deviate the Filipinos' attention on their creeping invasion and maybe other evil designs in the Philippine...