BEIJING (AP) — 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.

Jonathan Malaya, assistant director general of the National Security Council, told This Week in Asia that due to the absence of designated ... reporters during at the Manila Dialogue on the South China Sea on Friday. But professor Hu Bo, a Chinese maritime ...

China firmly opposes the Philippines' Maritime Zones Act, which it says "severely infringes on" the its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights in the South China Sea, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Sunday in a statement.