Google Maps and Geopolitical Disputes

How Google’s open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes. One fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with its usual complement of Indian place-names; the next it was sprinkled … Read more

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