Qingdao official described maps as threat to national security

Taiwan News   
Date: 2019/03/26 
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

A map of China without Taiwan shown at the White House last January, with National Security Adviser John Bolton in the foreground. (By Associated Press)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The city of Qingdao destroyed 29,000 maps at a secret site because they failed to show Taiwan as part of China, the South China Morning Post reported Monday in an article titled “Pulp Friction.”

Surprisingly, considering the communist country’s rigid ideological controls, the maps had been produced inside the country, in the city of Hefei in the province of Anhui. As they had been printed in English, they were destined for export to another country, but customs officials noticed the “problem” and intercepted the 800 boxes filled with “problematic” boxes, according to the South China Morning Post.    ][FULL  STORY]