The media reporting on this seem to have a resistance to fact-checking WSJ’s report.
They are like this all the time. Every tinyman day there’s a flurry of posts that some entire Beijing landmark has been wiped off of the map, yet just putting the place on Google translate and throwing it on Baidu always nets me results. Sometimes I wonder if these journalists even know baidu or the hanzi of the things they cite.
https://amap.com:
None of the countries are labeled at all, swallowing my head.
Surprise: Neither Baidu nor Alibaba’s Amap are display names of Israel or Palestine.
Lemmygrad fact checker seems to rank this as Debunked Fox News Lies.
I likewise don’t see israel labeled on Baidu lolll. The neighboring countries are there though.
Baidu is shown above in the comment I replied to. Neither Israel nor Palestine are there, which makes the original statement misleading.
They are like this all the time. Every tinyman day there’s a flurry of posts that some entire Beijing landmark has been wiped off of the map, yet just putting the place on Google translate and throwing it on Baidu always nets me results. Sometimes I wonder if these journalists even know baidu or the hanzi of the things they cite.
Bold of you to assume China “journalists” can finish reading a Chinese word without getting an instant heart attack from