Chinese Passports Stir Up Territorial Disputes
China delivered a rousing jolt to its various border disputes last week with the introduction of a controversial new passport design. Visa pages in the passports incorporate a map—shown in an annotated photograph at The Washington Post—which includes Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin in the Himalayas, ...
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[...] This post at China Digital Times presents a concise roundup of regional reactions. The Vietnamese are issuing visas on separate pieces of paper to avoid stamping the passports, and India is stamping the passports with its own map with non-Sinophile borders. A government spokesman from The Philippines said it is an infringement of national sovereignty. The Taiwanese are of course unhappy about it. [...]