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Re:Maps from The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by nradov on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:59PM (#32813152)
China is part of the global North. Beijing is located at 40 °N latitude.
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Re:Maps from The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by wbsss4412 on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:06PM (#32813260)
I’m not sure if you’re just unfamiliar but, no, China is not part of the global north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South?...

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Re:Maps from The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by nradov on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:22PM (#32813568)
That's such a ridiculous definition as to be utterly useless for any real analysis. North Korea is "South" and South Korea is "North". Got it.

I can't believe anyone would take this stuff seriously. But I'm sure it's popular with the officious busybodies in some international NGOs.

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Re:Maps from The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by wbsss4412 on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:43PM (#32813976)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can see how it’s confusing, but it’s a fairly well understood term by people within geopolitical circles. Unless you believe latitude is the most important explanatory variable in geopolitics, I don’t think the edge cases are such a big deal as to prevent us from using global north/south as a shorthand.

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