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 rejected Philippine maritime claims on Sunday, saying new legislation "severely infringes on" Beijing's territorial sovereignty and rights in the South China Sea, and vowing to protect its own interests.