Magazine Cover Illustration Upsets China, Pleases Taiwan

Mamma China is missing a couple of key parts

At first glance, this is a very clever magazine cover. The country contours of China, recast as a mother chicken, leading their Pakistan “chick” forward. As a representation of the former’s growing investment in the latter.

There’s just one problem. When the India Today crew drew up the cover, they left Tibet and Taiwan off the China-chicken portion, sparking a lot of social media chatter and media coverage in China. For example, an article by Sina news was headlined “Where’s Our Tibet and Taiwan?” From a report in the South China Morning Post:

China’s foreign ministry dismissed the [magazine] controversy.

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