Guess the Map IX: The Richese are no match

[SargontheGreat2]

Here:

Spoiler :

tried to make it a bit difficult

Actions the USSR did count for Russia, and Yugoslavia for Serbia

Map applies from 1950s on

 

[Kyriakos]

:/

I had a map ready..

 

[JohannaK]

Is there a scale?

 

[ales_]

Is it related to politics?

 

[Takhisis]

Are Egypt and Sudan counted as successor states of the British Empire?

 

[SargontheGreat2]

No, as the map refers to countries doing something to another country, and it starts in the 1950s

EDIT: Clarified, sorry

 

[Goodfella]

Does it have to do with the foreign relations of Western Sahara?

 

[SargontheGreat2]

Does it have to do with the foreign relations of Western Sahara?

no, keep guessing

 

[madviking]

relations with bhutan?

 

[SargontheGreat2]

relations with bhutan?

nope

/5char

 

[ales_]

Relations with China?

 

[SargontheGreat2]

warmer...

 

[ales_]

What state is representing China (PRC or RoC)?

 

[SargontheGreat2]

Well, well, it has to do with both...

 

[Goodfella]

Blue countries recognized Chiang Kai-Shek's government up until some point (1971 ish?) and red countries recognized Mao's/ the PRC government before then?

 

[say1988]

Blue countries recognized Chiang Kai-Shek's government up until some point (1971 ish?) and red countries recognized Mao's/ the PRC government before then?

That has to be it. Red recognized the PRC before UN recognition. Blue after the UN switch recognition to the PRC. Light blue currently recognize the Republic of China (I knew this, but couldn't figure out the red/blue split). Bhutan doesn't recognize either.

 

[Goodfella]

It's interesting that Canada and the UK differ from the US but Australia doesn't.

 

[Tahuti]

That has to be it. Red recognized the PRC before UN recognition. Blue after the UN switch recognition to the PRC. Light blue currently recognize the Republic of China (I knew this, but couldn't figure out the red/blue split). Bhutan doesn't recognize either.

I think it is about the establishment of diplomatic relations, not recognition, or the map is wrong. Because I see countries that recognised the PRC as the true China before the UN did coloured blue.

 

[say1988]

It's interesting that Canada and the UK differ from the US but Australia doesn't.

Only because of the arbitrary cut-off point. It is less interesting if you look at more detail. The UK was the first Western country to end relations with the ROC and recognize the PRC, in 1950.
Canada only changed its recognition in 1970, almost exactly a year before the UN vote.
Australia changed a year later in 1972 in the big post-UN recognition rush.
The US was one of the last countries to do so, in 1979, after abstaining on the UN vote.

 

[ales_]

Now we have to wait for the correct answer and winner.