tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post8020586423830814379..comments2023-09-26T04:38:00.780-05:00Comments on Hank’s Eclectic Meanderings: Strange Mapshank_F_Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09851295792702162861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-23509386090020335592007-06-28T17:34:00.000-05:002007-06-28T17:34:00.000-05:00El JeffeSome one added a commnent to the orgianal ...El Jeffe<BR/><BR/>Some one added a commnent to the orgianal post that was confirmed by another user.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>I think the map might be from Zbigniew Brezinkski’s book The Grand Chessboard.</I><BR/><BR/>I suspect that in there fondest dreams the only border China would be satisfied with is an internal border between Han and non-Han. But the are pragmaitc enough to settle for former spheres of influnce.hank_F_Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09851295792702162861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-85460263340377107082007-06-27T21:39:00.000-05:002007-06-27T21:39:00.000-05:00Your China map is interesting, looked familiar, an...Your China map is interesting, looked familiar, and I went looking. <BR/><BR/>I have an ancient book (1979) published by something called "Salamander Press" called <I>The Chinese War Machine</I>. My first book on the Chinese military in my high school days, and a very nice one, full of lots of glossy photos, cool diagrams and weapons specs. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, the book has some cool maps, and one of them at pp.112-13, is called "PRC Interpretation of China's Territorial Losses." This looks uncommonly like your China map. Out towards and including Sakhalin is the "Great Northeast Area" extorted by Russia in 1860; secessionist Mongolia in 1924; the Great Northwest, lost to Russia in the Taeching Treaty, 1864; Taiwan, of course; plus Burma, Vietnam, Thailand...Nepal. <BR/><BR/>If you believe this map, there isn't a spec of the border the PRC is happy with, save a little chunk of the Sinkiang/Kazakhstan border.El Jefe Maximohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661511063910659377noreply@blogger.com