Caitlin reports in her blog Geolounge on the May issue of National Geographic in China which was distributed with map pages glued together by the local distributor due to the controversial nature of the maps.
This reminds me that when I taught at a university in Taiwan (Feng Jia, in Taichung), in 1988-89, I bought a “National Geo” that had a map of China. Stamped on the cover was a statement that the Republic of China on Taiwan does not recognize the independence of the territory of Mongolia! The Taiwanese legislature still seated “representatives” from Mongolia and all other parts of Mainland China.
For decades both “countries”–the Peoples’ Republic and Taiwan–have more or less claimed each other. The current rapprochement is welcome, in that the world does not need increasing tensions in cross-Strait relations.
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This reminds me that when I taught at a university in Taiwan (Feng Jia, in Taichung), in 1988-89, I bought a “National Geo” that had a map of China. Stamped on the cover was a statement that the Republic of China on Taiwan does not recognize the independence of the territory of Mongolia! The Taiwanese legislature still seated “representatives” from Mongolia and all other parts of Mainland China.
For decades both “countries”–the Peoples’ Republic and Taiwan–have more or less claimed each other. The current rapprochement is welcome, in that the world does not need increasing tensions in cross-Strait relations.