The Nations That Don’t Appear on the Map

The most influential media network operating inside a dozen allied countries today has no masthead, no headquarters and no country of incorporation. It has roughly 50 million members across more than 150 countries. It is the Chinese diaspora — and it is only one of several.Since the Montevideo Convention of 1933, we have defined a state by four things: a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to conduct relations with other states. Diasporas have the first and,

Source: The Cipher Brief