One senior executive at a Chinese company operating in India says the potential for misunderstanding between the powers is caused by a fuzzy colonial-era border, drawn arbitrarily across a map.

印度某中资公司的一位高管表示，两个大国之所以可能产生误会，是由殖民时代在地图上草率画就的一条模糊的边境线所致。

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The map created by Matteo Ricci was the first in Chinese to show the Americas.

这幅由利玛窦(Matteo Ricci)制作的地图是第一个用中文展示美洲的地图。

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Indeed, as many netizens have noted, the painting includes many Chinese elements: a red tablecloth with a China map, Chinese bronze vessels, and a broken ancient wheel — did you see all of these?

其实正如许多网友看出的那样，这里面有不少的中国元素，如红桌布上的中国地图、青铜器、破损的古代车轮，这些你都看出来了吗？

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In practical terms, this will mean that developers will need to develop China-specific location-based services, which routinely access map services sanctioned by the Chinese government.

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But the "obsolete-map" story is not credible to Chinese scholars, says Yang Dazhou, a retired senior fellow at the Academy of Social Sciences and China's top Balkans expert.

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Partly because many Chinese are just getting their first cars there has been little demand for map apps, but that is likely to change with the same blinding speed so much else in China has experienced .

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