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Well you don’t see that everyday: Chinese plates in Amsterdam. The stickers declare they’re on a journey from Qingyang to Iceland

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zl2tod

There's been a minor plague of Chinese police cars in Auckland recently.

rnz.co.nz/news/chinese_english/1437924/cars-bearing-chinese-police-markings-stir-unease-in-auckland

Cars bearing Chinese police markings stir unease in Auckland

Police have moved to reassure Auckland's Chinese community after cars displaying what appeared to be foreign police markings have been spotted on the city's streets.
RNZ
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Andreas Sikkema

I see your China and offer my Japan. I once saw a Japanese van driving along the inner Grachtenring of Amsterdam. Unfortunately I was driving so I couldn’t take a picture, but it had a lot of writing on the back doors explaining how/where they travelled to Amsterdam.
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@gudenau there's a lot of cooperation between governments on the plate thing – otherwise international trucking would be difficult indeed...

you'll see US plates in very strange places because the US military pays for shipping deployed families' personal vehicles and then makes the arrangements with the local governments to smooth it over

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Huh, I always just kinda assumed that they would get euro plates when they did that and trucking wouldn't be a big deal because there isn't really land connecting the contents together. So I would expect to see the occasional Canadian plate in Mexico and similar, I wouldn't have expected to see a German plate in the States.

Interesting nonetheless!

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Agnieszka R. Turczyńska

@gudenau Just saying, I assume cooperation means mutuality. And the last time I've checked (which was quite a few years ago, to be honest) the mutuality was not the part regarding China. Travelers heading through China by cars or motorbikes used to use some services, which for a certain amount of money will meet you at the border, with a Chinese registration plate, and a Chinese driving licence. Back then it was required to have both to be able to drive in China. I wonder if something has changed during recent 10 years.
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Robin Syl 🌸

@nortti My impression is that there are three ways to translate a name to Chinese. Fully phonetic, meaning, or first syllable of the name + the word for country

Ireland is named phonetically as you described, presumably because no one knows how to translate "Ire". "Wrath island" doesn't have a good ring to it.

Meanwhile Greenland is translated by meaning, just like Iceland.

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I saw an 80's Mercedes with Austrian plates in Melbourne AU in 2019. They clearly took a wrong turn in Germany.

The owners drove around the world over 5 years. Their online campaign was 5c100c