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    7 hours ago

    Gaza and Xinjiang are located on opposite sides of Asia

    This is your brain on nationalism. Your physical sense of geography distorts to suit some lines on a map.

    Xinyang is literally the geographic center of Asia. Beijing is almost exactly twice as far from Gaza as Xinyang is (going by the closest points). But because Xinyang is “part of China”, it is “on the east coast of Asia”, and thus on the opposite side from Gaza, which is on the west coast of Asia. For the record, Gaza is on the opposite side of Asia from Japan.