Vietnam Pulls ‘Abominable’ From Cinemas Over Territorial Dispute With China1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVietnam has yanked DreamWorks Animation’s Abominable from cinemas over a scene that shows a map depicting China’s interpretation of territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
The offending scene features a map that displays China’s unilaterally imposed “nine-dash line” covering a vast U-shaped expanse of the South China Sea. China has claimed the resource-rich region as exclusively its own, while Southeast Asian nations in the area — some of which are much closer, geographically — vehemently reject the claims, saying pieces of it are rightfully theirs.
Maritime tensions between China and Vietnam have been high since July, when Beijing sent a ship to conduct an energy resources survey within waters controlled by Vietnam.
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