China publishes new details of its sweeping claims to South China Sea in row over Philippine law

A Chinese coast guard vessel stays beside suspected Chinese militia ships near Thitu island, locally called Pag-asa island ahead of a Philippine military multi-service joint exercise at the disputed South China Sea - (AP)

China has published new details of its claims to a contested shoal in the South China Sea in the latest clash over maritime territory with the Philippines.

Officials from the Chinese foreign ministry shared new coordinates for what it considers to be the country’s baseline, a term used in defining a country’s territorial waters that normally matches its coastline.