German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented Chinese Xi Jinping with a historical map that contradicts its own claim of territory in history, eliciting a stir and confusion among Chinese netizens. During a visit by Xi to Germany, Merkel gave the Chinese leader the 1735 map of China made by French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville and printed by a German publishing house. This historical map with a Latin caption translated as “China Proper” purportedly showed a glaring deviation from the modern China territorial map, or at least from what they have been claiming as their own. The d’Anville map curiously showed ‘China proper’ as a land mass completely separate from Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia and Manchuria, areas or territories over which China has invariably claimed sovereignty *IN YOUR FACE, CHINA!
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:50:24 +0000
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