China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.
China and the Philippines have traded barbs for months over manoeuvres at Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea.
China is seeking to substantiate its claim to a contentious reef in the Philippines' internationally recognized exclusive economic zone (EEZ), further escalating tensions with the U.S. ally.