After Barbie, Vietnam asks Netflix to take away Chinese drama over controversial map

By India Today World Desk: Vietnam has issued an order to Netflix to cease streaming a Chinese romantic drama throughout the nation. The purpose behind this directive is the drama’s depiction of a map exhibiting islands within the South China Sea as territory not belonging to Vietnam, reported British media home, The Independent.

The nation’s tradition ministry’s cinema division, in an announcement, declared that Netflix and FPT, Vietnam’s largest data know-how service, had been required to take away the collection titled Flight to You on account of its violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty legal guidelines.

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This motion comes shortly after the federal government prohibited the distribution of the favored “Barbie” film due to an identical map-related controversy.

Vietnam has raised objections to the portrayal of China’s “nine-dash line,” which extends China’s territorial claims nicely into the waters of the South China Sea, together with areas contested by Vietnam and different nations.

The “nine-dash line” is a contentious situation involving China and its neighboring nations, representing China’s assertion of sovereignty over a good portion of the South China Sea, which is disputed by Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

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The cinema division reviewed all 39 episodes of the collection and found that the controversial map appeared in 9 episodes, as reported by Vietnam Express, a state media outlet. In episode 18, a personality even acknowledged, “One day this map will go to many places in the world.”

Although FPT blurred the scenes that includes the map, the cinema division deemed it essential to take down all the collection on account of its inappropriate content material that violates Vietnam’s maritime sovereignty. The firms got a 24-hour deadline from Monday to take away the collection and had been requested to offer a compliance report by Wednesday.

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