• Fiona (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️
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    3 years ago

    But so was Manchuria. I think they’re trying to show what Wikipedia editors consider to be China’s modern borders, but also don’t want to use the names of present countries

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      Taiwan had been under Japanese occupation for much longer, and a treaty was signed at the end of the sino-japanese war. Manchuria is technically still occupied territories that haven’t been treatied off.