China delimits contested South China Sea shoal in dispute with Philippines

Ships from China and the Philippines have collided several times as part of increased confrontations

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.

The Foreign Ministry on Sunday posted online geographic coordinates for the baselines around Scarborough Shoal.

A nation's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone are typically defined as the distance from the baselines.