“A tiny, barely-noticeable line on some Chinese-made globes has created insult in Manilla where they are being sold in bookshops.  The problem is that these globes appear to use China’s ‘nine-dash’ map of the sea, first published in 1947, which shows Chinese territory extending hundreds of miles south from China’s Hainan Island to the equatorial waters off the coast of Borneo.  That little line indicates that the Spratly Islands are within Chinese territory, ignoring that they are currently the subject of overlapping territorial claims by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-made-globes-anger-philippines-2013-2

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