MANILA, Philippines - The U.S. government said Sunday it made an "honest mistake" when it displayed an inverted Philippine flag -- which wrongfully signified that the Southeast Asian nation was in a state of war -- in a meeting hosted by President Barack Obama.....

It was not immediately clear who pointed out the mistake. A photograph of Aquino sitting beside Obama with the inverted flag behind them was displayed on a government website Sunday but its caption did not point out the error.

During the summit, Obama discussed ways of bolstering economic ties between the U.S. and Southeast Asia as well as Asian regional concerns such as territorial disputes in the South China Sea and Nov. 7 elections in military-ruled Myanmar.

This should fuel the conspiracy theories among Chinese ultra-nationalists.

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