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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

Asia business & finance editor @TheEconomist. Co-host of our Money Talks podcast. Just a lad from Leeds with a lust for markets, economics and history.

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1 week ago

This is a reminder too of the selectiveness of Chinese government territorial claims. The Qing actually held (outer) Mongolia for longer than Taiwan. The ROC even vetoed Mongolian UN membership and didn't recognise it until 2002!

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