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.

China has sent one of its aircraft carriers to the contested South China Sea near the shores of Vietnam, according to a satellite image captured on Tuesday. This came as the Chinese military ...

The South China Sea has become one of the world’s most perilous geopolitical hot spots in recent years, with China stepping ...