China has plenty of home-grown digital maps that are better than Google Maps when in China (for example Baidu Maps). China has blocked Western companies from being able to use accurate mapping data of the country on grounds of national security and digital protectionism.
It’s quite nonsensical for Westerners to blame China for simply implementing policies to incubate their own tech industry when they use tariffs to do the exact same thing. If China didn’t pass such laws, Google Maps would have a global monopoly on digital maps.
Here’s the article link: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/curious-case-google-maps-china-why-it-so-inaccurate-1576834
The article mentions the nine-dash line and the GCJ-02 coordinate systems.
These types of articles are always funny because it’s a double whammy of things journalists know nothing about and sound braindead talking about (china and tech).
