A customer looking in a sport utility vehicle on display at the Sai Gon Ford dealership in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The country’s automobile registrar told the importer based in northern Vietnam to take the app out of Chinese-made cars it distributes in the country. — Bloomberg
Vietnam ordered an automobile importer to remove navigation apps that show maps reflecting Chinese territorial claims that are rejected by Hanoi, adding to a wave of pushback against map’s showing the "nine-dash line”.
The country’s automobile registrar told the importer based in northern Vietnam to take the app out of Chinese-made cars it distributes in the country, said Nguyen To An, head of motor-vehicle quality in the registration office. The maps showed the nine-dash line reflecting China’s disputed claim to sovereignty over about 80% of the South China Sea.
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