Filipi**s gleefully send 'Chexit' tweets after South China Sea ruling
 

Filipi**s gleefully send 'Chexit' tweets after South China Sea ruling
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Filipi**s are flooding Twitter with celebrations after an international tribunal ruled in its favour against China's assertions that the larger country owns a number of disputed islands in the South China Sea.

China has been tussling with other countries in the region such as the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan, over a group of islands and the waters around them. China's claims are in large part backed by a 1947 map showing a U-shaped string of dashes encircling a large area of the sea.

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The string of dashes is in green.

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