Only Chinese companies will be allowed to map Chinese roads

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@Boundegar

Not just China, the old Soviet Union treated maps as state secrets. It’s a totalitarian thing.

Mark Thomas Secret Map Of Britain

@peregrinus_bis

China has a deep insecurity about invasion, given that over the centuries each region has invaded the others (bloodily), and then Japan took over in horrid fashion, and broke them into pieces.

Not to forget:

First Opium War - Trade Deficits and the Macartney Embassy - Extra History - Part 1

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