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| China siezes Japanese textbooks with Taiwan a different map color |
| 2005-06-30 |
| EFL The seizure of Japanese textbooks showing Taiwan and the Chinese mainland in different colours was in accordance with Chinese law, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular press conference in Beijing that Chinese customs in April seized 15 geography textbooks ordered by a Japanese school in Dalian as they violated Chinese regulations on customs management and publishing. He said customs returned the books to their sender and would continue to deal with similar situations in the same way. My friend got a magnetic map of China with the different provinces. I asked him, "Where'd the Taiwan piece go?" He grinned and replied, "Whoops, must have lost that one." |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #5 Interesting fact: In Japan in the 1990s, I was looking at a map that had the 4 northern territories in a different color from the one used for Russia. Hey, no problem, the Japanese claim those as their own from centuries back, no big deal, I thought. Then I noticed that the whole southern half of Sakhalin was the same non-Russian color... |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2005-06-30 21:31 |
| #4 OK, fine. Put Taiwan as "China (legal government)" and the mainland as "China (occupied by communists)." |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-06-30 10:34 |
| #3 Getting a little paranoid now, arent they? If they knew about the ballistic missile submarines we sent to the straights they would probably go off their rockers. |
| Posted by: Bigjim-ky 2005-06-30 08:58 |
| #2 Never underestimate the pettiness of petty dictators. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-30 08:57 |
| #1 Some people never get the word. They shoulda called me. |
| Posted by: Bill Gates 2005-06-30 08:36 |