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GEOPOLITICS OF CHINA, ALESSI RAFAELLA, RAMOS ANDREA - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Xinjian in the north-west became the country's biggest province. Xinjian is essential because it allows China to be independent. It borders 8 countries and it has territory where sea and land routes were created after the Silk road cross. It also has sources of oil and nuclear weapons.
        
        Xinjian and Tibet are buffer zones, for this reason China will not cede these territories, as they also are, important trade routes.
        
        Also, Tibet is important for China because, again, The Himalayas run
        the length of the Chinese–Indian border before descending to become the
        Karakorum Range.
- - - - Mao Zedong centralized power to block Russian influence in Mongolia. In 1851 China completed its annexation to Tibet.
        
        Deng Xiapoing used "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" to regain Hong Kong and Macau from the British and Portugal.
        
        China's border with Russia runs all the way to the Pacific Ocean in Manchuria. Recent Western Sanctions against Russia due to the crisis in Ukraine have driven Russia into massive economic deals with China on terms that help Russia afloat but are favorable to the Chinese.
- - - - It cuts the two most populous
        countries on the planet off from each other both militarily and economically.
- - - - China declares Taiwan as its twenty-third province, but its currently an American ally with a navy and air force armed by Washington.
    - - Over ownership of islands, natural resources and control of the seas and shipping lanes.
      - Diaoyu
        
        Japan is in dispute with China over the uninhabited island chain it calls Senkaku and the Chinese know as Diaoyu, north-east of Taiwan.
- - - - Another potential flare-up with Japan centres on the East China Sea’s
        gas deposits.
        
        Strait of Malacca between Malaysia,
        Singapore and Indonesia
        
        To go westward towards the energy-producing states of the Gulf they must pass Vietnam. Go through this strait which is diplomatically linked to the USA, and it has always been a choke point for China.