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China’s government is issuing a new official map, which will include the nation’s “full” territory, including several areas disputed with other nations.
The new map, which will be released later this month by China’s National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, will now include 130 disputed areas which China is claiming belongs to it, including the much debated Diaoyu/ Senkaku islands.
Previous editions of officially issued maps were presented horizontally, and only included islands in a separate box and typically not to scale. This new map will include all disputed areas to scale, outlining what China believes to be the entirety of the nation’s land and maritime territories.
Xu Gencai, the editor-in-chief of Sinomaps Press, the company distributing the new maps, told Xinhua News Agency what that the goal in distributing these new editions is to officially stake China's territorial claims with the rest of the world, as well as its own citizens.
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Reported by IBTimes 22 hours ago.
China’s government is issuing a new official map, which will include the nation’s “full” territory, including several areas disputed with other nations.
The new map, which will be released later this month by China’s National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, will now include 130 disputed areas which China is claiming belongs to it, including the much debated Diaoyu/ Senkaku islands.
Previous editions of officially issued maps were presented horizontally, and only included islands in a separate box and typically not to scale. This new map will include all disputed areas to scale, outlining what China believes to be the entirety of the nation’s land and maritime territories.
Xu Gencai, the editor-in-chief of Sinomaps Press, the company distributing the new maps, told Xinhua News Agency what that the goal in distributing these new editions is to officially stake China's territorial claims with the rest of the world, as well as its own citizens.
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Reported by IBTimes 22 hours ago.