I had written one post about Chinese intrusion in India, you can find it in my previous post list. This post is just continuation of that post and is not on China vs India, but on Google, the company that is having a row with the Chinese over censorship and allegations that the dragon nation used gmail to hack into important networks outside China. And no, I am not defending Google in its fight against the Chinese censorship. As long as it is not my nation, I am not bothered by how another nation handles its censorship issues.
Ohh… I am going off-track!! Let me bring my focus back on Google. China, with the largest internet users' base, is an important market for any Internet company. Google is no exception. And in its business interests, the company does all that is necessary to be good to the country it operates in. Hence, Google, bluntly put, makes a fool of both Indians and Chinese… And how is being done? Just take a look at the maps shown below and watch carefully the red color circled area… compare all three maps… and I am quite sure you won’t need any explanation!
If you open the Google maps' China edition available at http://ditu.google.com, Arunachal would show itself as an undisputed part of China, the whole of Arunachal Pradesh on Google maps.
The point ‘A’ shown here inside the circle is ‘Arunachal Pradesh’!!… and it is clearly visible that it is in Chinese territory!!
For the uninitiated, Arunachal is a disputed territory between the two nations, with both laying claim to its territory, notwithstanding India's greater claim to it given the fact that it has a democratically elected government in place for years now.
And if you open Google India on http://maps.google.co.in, is politically correct and our fellow citizens from Arunachal Pradesh can, thankfully, still call themselves Indians.
For the uninitiated, Arunachal is a disputed territory between the two nations, with both laying claim to its territory, notwithstanding India's greater claim to it given the fact that it has a democratically elected government in place for years now.
And if you open Google India on http://maps.google.co.in, is politically correct and our fellow citizens from Arunachal Pradesh can, thankfully, still call themselves Indians.
The real fun begins when it comes to opening the map available on the international edition at http://maps.google.com.
You can see the dotted lines above Arunachal Pradesh… The dotted lines are symbol of showing disputed areas... Huh!! Jai ho Google Devtaa ki!!... Everybody is happy now!!
I think we have a right to demand that Google, since it operates from India and has considerable business interests here, make changes and not try to pretend to keep everyone happy when in reality is making a fool of everyone.
It doesn’t end up here… the same story is with Indo-Pak border… and guess what… narrated again by our very own Google!!!!
I think we have a right to demand that Google, since it operates from India and has considerable business interests here, make changes and not try to pretend to keep everyone happy when in reality is making a fool of everyone.
It doesn’t end up here… the same story is with Indo-Pak border… and guess what… narrated again by our very own Google!!!!
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