THE Chinese Embassy in Manila confirmed on Friday that China has submitted a statement and relevant charts of the baselines of Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Dao) in the South China Sea to assert its claim to the area.
A baseline under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) is a line that runs along the coast of a country or an island, from which the extent of the territorial sea and other maritime zones, such as the exclusive economic zone and extended continental shelf, are measured.
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