{"id":3061,"date":"2019-03-27T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2019-03-27T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:20:10","slug":"china-destroys-30000-incorrect-world-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-destroys-30000-incorrect-world-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"China destroys 30,000 \u2018incorrect\u2019 world maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Customs officials in China have destroyed nearly\n30,000 world maps printed in the Country. This is because the maps did not show\nArunachal Pradesh and Taiwan as part of its territory.<\/li><li>China claims Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet, a\npart of part of the Tibet Autonomous Region. China bases it claim on the\nargument that historical ties existed between the Tawang monastery in Arunachal\nPradesh and the Lhasa monastery. Hence, the Chinese logic is that given Tibet\nis now part of China, Arunachal Pradesh should form a part of it.<\/li><li>However, India claims Arunachal Pradesh as an\ninalienable part of India. China\u2019s territorial claim on Arunachal Pradesh has been\na major contentious issue between India and China. <\/li><li>China also claims the island nation, Taiwan as a\npart of its territory. The controversy regarding Taiwan\u2019s\u2019 sovereignty dates\nback to 1949 when the Kuomintang (KMT) government lost power to Communist Party\nin China and its leaders had fled to Taiwan. People Republic of China (PRC) was\nestablished controlling mainland China and two special administrative regions,\nHong Kong and Macau. On the other hand, KMT had established Republic of China\n(ROC) government in Taiwan and claimed to represent the whole of China.<\/li><li>Republic of China (ROC) government represented\nChina in the UN until it was replaced by the PRC in 1971. Till date, PRC regards\nTaiwan as a breakaway province which it has vowed to retake. While, Taiwan leaders\nconsiders Taiwan as a sovereign state. Presently, Taiwan has formal diplomatic\nties with only a few countries who recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs officials in China have destroyed nearly 30,000 world maps printed in the Country. This is because the maps did not show Arunachal Pradesh and Taiwan as part of its territory. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet, a part of part of the Tibet Autonomous Region. China bases it claim on the argument that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-destroys-30000-incorrect-world-maps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China destroys 30,000 \u2018incorrect\u2019 world maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5291,5292],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-china-arunachal","tag-china-taiwan","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704617900},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}