China's old maps showed a China that is much bigger than what it is today. In the old maps, South Tibet, the Indians called Arunachal Pradesh, was clearly a part of China. The map the Indians are using, is a map drawn by an English clerk sitting in London who drew a line claiming that Southern Tibet belonged to the British Empire. And Indians think this is an authority to claim South Tibet as part of India when India did not even exist then.
Old Chinese maps also showed the Ryukyu Island chain was an independent state, not part of Japan. The Japanese only have administrative rights over the islands passed on to them by the treacherous and untrustworthy Americans. Old Chinese maps, especially in the time of the Ming Dynasty, showed most of the islands in the South China Sea belonged to China. The islands of the Philippines then were non states, occupied by hill and fishing tribes.
China today is also using old maps to conduct live firing exercises in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Because the maps were old, the possibility of Chinese missiles landing outside the live firing areas is extremely high. Ships messing around in the region would conveniently fall target to Chinese fire. Provocative and rogue states sailing their naval ships in the region when China is firing live ammunitions, missiles during exercises are there at their own risk.
If they happened to sail into the path of live ammo or missiles, just bad luck. The missiles have no eyes, and the Chinese forces cannot be blamed as they were using old maps.
All troublemakers be warned. When China conducts live firing exercises in the western Pacific Ocean, you enter at your own risk. You know the danger, you choose to be there. Using old maps is a precedent set by the Americans when they bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. China will never forget and waiting to use this precedent for live firing practices.
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Putin said the history of WW2 had been distorted and hijacked by the Western propaganda machine. This is absolutely true.
The defeat of Nazi Germany was all due to the hard work of the Soviet Union, while the bulk of the credit was given to the USA glorifying the Normandy Landing as the pivotal stage in the defeat of Hitler. The Allies were waiting in the wings for Hitler and Stalin to destroy each other, but when the Soviets were clearly on the upper hand and Hitler retreating, they then went in to take the credit for the defeat of Hitler, even gloating that the Allies suffered minor casualties. Of course, the Soviet Union undertook the heavy lifting of the defeat of Hitler, suffering about 26 million in casualties during that war. When commemorating the Normandy Landing recently, the Russians were left in the lurch despite the huge sacrifices they made.
The other distorted history that some are talking about was the two nukes dropped on Japan, when Japan was already on the brink of defeat and the two nukes were deemed unnecessary. The real agenda of the USA at that time was trying to test its nuke earlier than the Soviet Union, as both were competing with each other, and poor Japan became the testing ground for the USA to show the world it was one up on the Soviet Union. However, the spin was that the two nukes were the pivotal point that made Japan surrender, which many do not swallow. But who can out spin the USA's propaganda machine with its annual budget of billions?
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