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.

Beijing claims nearly all such features in the South China Sea, frequently appealing to early 20th-century maps and historical records. An independent tribunal at The Hague-based Permanent Court ...

Indonesia has yet to decide on any joint development areas with China in the South China Sea, its foreign minister said on ...

Earlier this month, China declared new "baselines" around Scarborough Reef, a large coral atoll topped by a handful of rocks ...

China released a new map for its southernmost city ... was established in 2012 to assert China’s claims to the resource-rich South China Sea. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also assigned ...

rocks and other features in the South China Sea, as well as unspecified “historic rights” within its claimed nine-dash line. This includes Scarborough Reef. In recent years, the reef has been ...

Indonesia said on Monday it does not recognise China's claims over the South China Sea despite signing a joint maritime ...

Many Southeast Asian nations are looking for assurances from the U.S. before President-elect Donald Trump's return to power ...

Chinese incursions at Scarborough Shoal and Pag-Asa Shoal (Thitu Island) in the Philippines expose legal warfare over ...

Many South China Sea states are hesitant to join agreements with China, fearing they could be interpreted as legitimising ...