The Philippines said on Monday it has won support from Vietnam, Indonesia and Brunei for a plan to ease tensions in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) which it intends to present at a regional meeting this week.

China and several of its Southeast Asian neighbors are embroiled in increasingly bitter territorial disputes over the strategic sea which Beijing claims almost in its entirety.

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