00:04Welcome to Your News Fact Checking Show. This is Noa Schumann and you're watching The Cube.
00:09This video of EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas in Estonia has prompted a wave of posts and headlines.
00:15In Europe, we have a very clear understanding of the diagnosis of the disease, but we don't have agreement on
00:25the cure.
00:26And if you have a very, very difficult disease, like you have a cancer, then you have two choices.
00:32Either you increase the morphine or you start chemotherapy.
00:37While Kallas' remarks were controversial, some online users are portraying them as her calling Chyna a cancer and separately engaging
00:45in warmongering.
00:46Both blunt her interpretations that what she actually said.
00:50Unlike what the post claimed, Kallas did not call Chyna a cancer.
00:54Rather, she was using a medical metaphor while discussing Europe's response to what she described as Chinese economic coercion and
01:01trade pressure.
01:02She spoke of morphine referring to subsidies helping European countries compete and chemotherapy in the context of tougher EU measures
01:10that could trigger Beijing's retaliation.
01:13In separate viral posts, Kallas also accused Kallas of warmongering by attributing to her the quote,
01:18If Europe cannot defeat Russia, how then are we supposed to defeat China?
01:23But Kallas did not actually say this.
01:26These comments are from a discussion hosted by the Hudson Institute in 2025,
01:31where Kallas argued that failing to pressure Russia over the war in Ukraine would weaken Europe's credibility in responding to
01:37a larger China.
01:39Since then, short-term extract from the discussion have repeatedly resurfaced online and misleadingly been presented as fresh comments.
01:46See you next week!
01:51Dziękuje za uwagę.
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