“Map Warfare”: How Chinese Maps Have Infiltrated the World

Great work Chris!

My grandfather and his brother were guests of the workers paradise AKA USSR during WWII in a nice friendly gulag. The rest of the families enjoyed the hospitality of Kazachstan, although the diet was a bit lean. Anyway, it was common knowledge that maps of the USSR were purposely distorted. Major cities were shifted by hundreds of kilometers, rivers flowed up mountains, and more. The official reason was that this will make the capitalists ICBMs miss their targets [and kill someone else instead?]

Nothin new under the sun:

How can the average citizen work to avoid buying Chinese made products?

Here is a different type of map war that I can across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China

There are some hilarious comments on the change.org petition! Thanks be thee three.. what heroes be to me..

signed

Hello Chris, thank you for the episode. I also asked you this question in private so that you could answer in one of your episodes... I imagine that you do not have a lot of time to read everything but this is as serious as it gets! Would you please tell me why you call the disputed area south china sea? How is this different than China changing maps? I mean, vocally, you are already legitimizing their claim. I would really appreciate if you comment on this!