Mar. 28 – Why did Angela Merkel gift an ancient Map of China to Xi Jinping.
“Courtesy FP”
This was CHINA proper. Chinese heartland of ethnic Han people, without Tibet,
Xinjiang, Mongolia, or Manchuria, all much disputed formerly. The islands of Taiwan and Hainan, all part of modern China, are shown with a different color border.
This was a 1735 map of China by French cartographer Jean-Baptiste d’Anville printed by a German publishing house. China now claims sovereignty over these territories.
China also claims Arunachal Pradesh as being part of PRC territory.
Have they occupied Arunachal Pradesh ? What’s that China claims here as its ?
“Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.”
PRC claims entire Arunachal !
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