China!!
The story begins with a news
The wingsuit flier community had a bad news today, as their member Victor Kovats dies after he plunged into a remote valley in northwestern China during a practice flight ahead of the World Championships.
This is a sad news, telling how dangerous this sport is. As showing sympathy to Victors family and the wingsuit flying community, there is also something came into my mind: how breath-taking it is to play around with China.
Lets talk about the map, briefly. There is one big country of over nine million kilometers square. There are a lot of countries around China, but there are some golden lands that this huge octopus does not want to take off its hands.
The East sleepless seas
In the east of China, there is the Eastern Sea. The official name of the sea among China, Korea and Japan makes the sea area among China, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia be called Indochina sea, or once even be mentioned as South China sea.
There are islands, peninsulas, which are being confirmed ownership by many countries at the same time. Both East Sea and Indochina Sea are in conflicts.
Some richer even proposed to buy the islands in Japan case. However, money did not talk in that story. The poorer southern countries, on the other hand, cannot use gold to throw on the game, so they just weakly talk, islands are gradually accounted by Chinese people.
The west hidden treasure
It is actually the south-west area that Tibetans live. In comparison to the East which are full of obvious potentials, the west has more deep down values.
We have been repeating again and again about Tibets beauty of nature, the mount-Everest, mines and so on. Moreover, there is one interesting thing about the west side of China: the path to Nepal borders that once saw the flow of Buddhism lessons into China and became the nation-wide religion, affected their culture in deep.
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FNOTW: Wingsuit flier and the lessons of living around China.