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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This was recently borne out by our documentation of Koro, a small language in India that is new to science. (See National Geographic's Enduring Voices project for an interactive map.)

最近一种来自印度的新语言Koro的发现印证了这一点（参见国家地理杂志“Enduring Voices”项目的互动地图）。

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After that, he read all the letters he had ever received and threw most of them away, and then he bought a large map of India and hung it above his bed.

后来把收到的信从头到尾读了一遍，大部分信还是扔掉了，又买来了一大张印度地图挂在床头。

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The poster shows a map of India with the words "Tamil Nadu" printed in bold letters within the state's boundary.

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And indeed a street map of India (notoriously hard place to navigate) was already in the works, being crowd-sourced by users in India.

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In other words, the United States values our partnership not because of where India is on a map, but because of what we share and where we can go together.

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