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Tuotiao.com, based in Beijing, recently published an article titled “Why Kyrgyzstan Doesn’t Return to China After Independence?”
The article explains that Kyrgyzstan’s 510,000 square kilometers (roughly the entire country) were part of China but were occupied by the Russian empire. The article states that, like Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan was once part of Chinese territory.
Toutiao.com is China’s leading mobile platform for content with an audience of up to 750 million.
Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Zhang Xiao (left) at a meeting with diplomats from the host country on April 14. Photo: inform.kz
Meanwhile, Sohu.com (also based in Beijing) also published an article titled: “Why is Kazakhstan anxious to return to China?”, Which says that “Kazakhstan is located in territories that previously belonged to China.”
On April 14, the Kazakh government called Chinese Ambassador Zhang Xiao to protest the content.
Central Asian countries are heavily invested by China, but this also makes them “financially vulnerable”.
Kyrgyzstan borrowed $ 1.7 billion from the China Export-Import Bank, equivalent to 43% of the country’s total external debt. Furthermore, China plays an important role in the energy sector in Kazakhstan.
The Nepalese reacted angrily when CGTN (China) said Mount Everest was “within the Tibetan autonomous region of China.” Photo: Reuters
The Nepalese also reacted angrily when CGTN (China) said Mount Everest “is located in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China” in a message posted on the social networking site Twitter at 2-5. This message was later removed and replaced by the content of Mount Everest “located on the China-Nepal border”.
Still, the wave of outrage from Nepalese people continues to rise dramatically, leading to the tendency to post the hashtag #backoffchina (roughly translated as “avoid Chinese”) on Twitter. Some have even asked the Chinese ambassador to Nepal to clarify the issue.
The dispute between China and Nepal over Mount Everest began in the 1960s. At that time, Nepal’s Prime Minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala claimed the mountain peak during his visit to China.
Meanwhile, the Chinese leadership is said to have proposed dividing Everest in half, the southern part belonging to Nepal, while the north is controlled by China. In addition, Beijing proposes to rename Mount Everest to a China-Nepal friendship mountain.
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