This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the newspaper. Milwaukee Sentinel in April 1940, during the Second World War, when the United States had not yet entered the conflict. It is a propaganda map that sought to raise awareness among the American population of global threats.
Burke, in two previously published maps, had already made clear the threat of Japan y the Soviet Union. On this map, he subtly suggests the hypothesis that Japan and the Soviet Union could sign a treaty, similar to the one signed between the Soviet Union and Germany, which could lead to the division of China between the two countries.
On the map, Burke states that the Soviet Union already controls Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet de facto, while Japan controls Manchuria and several coastal areas of China. In the caption, the author also states that a country as large as China could not be completely conquered by a single country, so it was very likely that Russia and Japan would divide it up to create multiple puppet states with which to control the region.
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