How come yankee google maps gives Taiwan the bold black text that’s reserved for countries? The official US government stance afaik is that it’s part of China.
No it isn’t. One China policy means that both sides can think they are China (nobody in Taiwan thinks that btw) and it allows China to save face and leaves Taiwan alone. Any deviation from the Taiwanese gov from what what the KMT ers dere claimed means the CPC goes to war, so they claim.
It’s stunning how quickly this change was implemented. Tech companies can just edit a string on some database and rename the planet huh?
Too many 19 year olds with too much write access is a sign of the times.
Actually Google maps changes itself based on the country it is accessed from.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-maps-political-borders/
So I imagine that it’s the Gulf of America when accessed from Burgerstan
https://blog.google/products/maps/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025/
Accessing from Europe it says: “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”
It’s like being in India and looking at Kashmir. Google just draws shit for each group so they all stop crying
How come yankee google maps gives Taiwan the bold black text that’s reserved for countries? The official US government stance afaik is that it’s part of China.
That was a rhetorical question btw
It’s a good point though. It’s all calvinball.
No it isn’t. One China policy means that both sides can think they are China (nobody in Taiwan thinks that btw) and it allows China to save face and leaves Taiwan alone. Any deviation from the Taiwanese gov from what what the KMT ers dere claimed means the CPC goes to war, so they claim.