<p>China has published  baselines  for a contested shoal in the South China sea  it had seized from the Phillippines, a move that's likely to increase tensions overlapping territorial claims.</p><p>China's foreign ministry on Sunday posted online geographic coordinates for the baselines around Scarborough Shoal.   </p><p>Both China and Philippines claim Scarborough shoal and other outcropping in the south China sea. </p><p>A  2016 rulling by an international arbitration ovetation court found that most  most Chinese claims in the south China sea were<span style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;" data-ke-size="size16"> invalid, but </span>Beijing refused to abide by it.</p><p>Im Karen Chammas.</p>
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