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Chinese Produced Globe of the
World “annexes” Quang Ninh
Province
August 24, 2018

This report was received on August 23, 2018:

Vietnamese public is stunned with the rumor that said China is selling the “globe”
(a spherical model of Earth) in Ukraine. Those globes refers to Vietnam’s Van Don
special economic zone and a part of Quang Ninh province as “China’s territories”.
Nga Pham of the BBC released a photograph of the Globe on her Twitter account
(nga_pham@Twitter BBC) and advised me separately that the Globe may have been
produced in the Ukraine. Quang Ninh province is listed as number 15 on map below
and is the site for the proposed Van Dong Special Economic Zone.
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Artist impression:

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Photograph of the Globe being sole in the Ukraine. Note the red circle marking the
area of Quang Ninh province shown as Chinese territory.
Note too no nine-dash line and Taiwan is a different colour from the mainland.