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“It begins with looking from an enemy’s perspective and then seeing where you are and how you might array your capabilities,” Gen. Xavier Brunson said.
Commentary Comment: Can we blame Mercator for Trump’s Greenland obsession? To simplify his map, the cartographer drew Greenland as immense, when it’s smaller than Algeria. Wednesday, April 2 ...
The technical compliance and quality assurance services firm has published a report describing the location and contact details of 128 transformer factories in China. The free publication is ...
There are other projections that fix this problem, but they look odd and convoluted if you grew up with Mercator maps. How big is Greenland really?
Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.
Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make decisions based on national interests.
Yet many commentators have pointed out what any true map-lover knows: Greenland is not actually as big as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection, originally designed by a 16 th century ...
China's tariffs on oil, gas and coal appear calibrated to avoid serious disturbance to global energy markets. Beijing said it would impose 15% tariffs on supercooled natural gas and coal from the ...
Amap, one of China’s leading navigation platforms, has officially launched its first English-language map targeting overseas users.
Animated map of China's remote Tibet region and surrounding areas, showing the epicenter of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on January 7, 2025 VIDEOGRAPHIC ...
Beijing’s and Moscow’s relationship has strengthened militarily, economically, and diplomatically in the past two decades, demonstrating their commitment to a “no limits” partnership.