Armed with a map of China's wine regions and an open mind, I trotted off to the tasting, which by coincidence landed on the vernal equinox an appropriate time to challenge my taste buds and try something new.
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And China has submitted a map that seems to assert ownership of a vast part of the South China sea.
According to the Americans, their unarmed ship Impeccable, under naval supervision but with a civilian crew, was peacefully surveying the ocean floor in international waters about 120km (75 miles) south of China's Hainan Island (see map).
He gives due credit to another key source, Marinus of Tyre, whose map was the first to include both China and the Antarctic.
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After naval clashes with Vietnam and the Philippines -- which claim parts of the South China Sea alongside Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan -- China has further angered its neighbours by printing a map of its extensive maritime claim, known as the "nine-dotted line" in new passports.
Earlier this week, Sina, a leading Chinese online media company, announced a strategic partnership with AutoNavi Holdings Limited, a provider of digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions in China, in an effort to enhance the social, location and mobile offerings of both the companies.
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The jellyfish spawn along the coasts of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea (see map in article) and some drift towards Japan.
"What I don't quite understand why they spend so long debating international issues in a country where 70% of people probably wouldn't be able to locate China on the map, " said another user.
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The rise of China as other large emerging economies is re-drawing the global economic map.
This seems based on a 1940s map giving China virtually the whole sea, ignoring the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
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And the map-ping of the genome let scientists decode the genetic blueprint of new viruses like SARS, the virus that swept China in the spring, in a few days.
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