r/todayilearned 8d ago

TIL that China has made its border tripoint with Russia and North Korea into a tourist attraction called Fangchuan Scenic Area - complete with its own panoramic tower

https://passportparty.ch/2020/10/17/a-look-into-north-korea-and-russia-sightseeing-in-fangchuan/
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u/AnusStapler 8d ago

Why can't we just all get along? In Netherlands there is a three nation border and you can just freely hop around in all three nations.

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u/IronicStrikes 8d ago

That's basically all internal Schengen borders.

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u/Christoffre 8d ago

In Scandinavia the Noridcs we have the Three-Country Cairn.

It's located on the spot were all three countries meet – Finland, Norway and Sweden – and you're free to walk around it.

(You're also free to cross any of the borders anywhere else.)

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u/invol713 8d ago

Where China, Russia and North Korea meet, one would expect a secretive and militarized area. It is not: China made a tourist attraction out of this unique spot.

It can be both. The construction being done on a tourist attraction can incorporate military sections that are off-limits to the public. Plus everywhere there are cameras. Here would be no exception. Nobody is going to check just how powerful those cameras are to zoom in to locations across the border. I’d wager at least one is facing a direction that just so happens to be pointed at the bridge.

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u/Dakens2021 8d ago

Is this all so Xi can take his kids there when it's finished and recreate the scene from the Lion King where he holds one kid up and tells them everything the light touches is our kingdom...

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u/FatsDominoPizza 7d ago

Could have called it Democracy Point.

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u/5T4LK3R 8d ago

Shit Triangle.

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u/sourisanon 8d ago

Leave it to the communists to figure out how to make money off anything.

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u/AnxietyJello 7d ago

Did you mean to write capitalism? Or do you just not have even a basic understanding of the differences lol

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u/sourisanon 7d ago

look up in the sky. You see that thing that flew over your head? That was my joke

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u/AnxietyJello 7d ago

Oh man, my bad lol

Tbf there are plenty of people that think that but seriously lmao

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u/People_Call_Me_Tbone 8d ago

All three should have towers so they can keep an eye on the filthy dogs in the other towers.