A lot of the disputed borders in the world are islands that multiple nations claim ownership of. The problem is there’s no differences on Google Maps as the borders are visually the same.
For the purposes of this video it is assumed that Google is politically neutral. There are a lot of good arguments against that assumption, but that’s a video for another day.
If you want to try this yourself, click on the name of your country in the bottom right when on Google Maps - this’ll let you change your region in settings. Google is blocked throughout most of China and isn’t on the list, however changing the top-level-domain to .cn can sometimes work. Even though Google is blocked in China already, many citizens find a way around it. Google are trying become reinstated, this means they still have to keep China's government onside.
Google Map Maker was discontinued in 2017, but a lot the features have been merged into main Google Maps site.
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