Vietnam orders Netflix to remove Chinese TV drama over disputed map; govt gives streaming service 24 hours to take out content

The "nine-dash line" map in the TV series "Flight to You" appears on Netflix Vietnam. - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI (Bloomberg): Netflix Inc. and FPT Telecom stopped offering the Chinese romantic TV drama Flight to You in Vietnam after Hanoi said it violated sovereignty laws by depicting a disputed map showing islands in the South China Sea islands as non-Vietnamese territory.

The culture ministry’s cinema department said on its website that even after FPT Telecom blurred the image of the map, the 39-episode drama features inappropriate content, breaking Vietnam’s sovereignty laws.