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China's Liaoning aircraft carrier with accompanying fleet conducts a drill in an area of South China Sea, in this undated photo taken December, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer/File photo

Vietnam Blocks Sony’s Movie “Uncharted” Over Disputed South China Sea Map

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March 12, 2022
Reuters

HANOI, March 12 (Reuters) – Vietnam has banned Sony’s action movie “Uncharted” from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows a disputed line declared by China to stake its claim to large parts of the South China Sea, state media reported on Saturday. 

The U-shaped “nine-dash line” is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over vast areas of the resource-rich South China Sea, including swathes of what Vietnam regards as its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions.

“Uncharted,” an action and adventure film based on a video game series about treasure hunting, stars Tom Holland and was due to hit cinemas nationwide on March 18.

“The film was banned from distribution after we watched it and found it contained an illegal image of the infamous nine-dash line,” state-run Vietnam News Agency reported, citing Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films.

Vietnam pulled DreamWorks’ animated film “Abominable” from cinemas in 2019 and ordered Netflix in 2021 to remove some episodes of the “Pine Gap” series over the same issue. 

The Southeast Asian country this week protested twice over military exercises by China and Taiwan in what it describes as its exclusive economic zone, and demanded they respect Vietnam’s sovereignty and legitimate rights at sea. 

Reporting by Phuong Nguyen, Editing by Mark Potter

(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2022.

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