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• A Merkel, a Map, a Message to China?

  China, Germany, Maps, Sovereignty, Territory

  April 3, 2014

  News × West Philippine Sea

  HONG KONG: Last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping at a dinner where they exchanged gifts. Merkel presented to Xi a 1735 map of China made by prolific French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville and printed by a German publishing house. According to an antique-maps website, d’Anville’s map was based on earlier geographical surveys done by…

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