‘Abominable’ will skip theatres in Malaysia, Vietnam due to controversial map of the South China Sea

yp.scmp.com

The film briefly shows the ‘nine-dash line’, which China claims as its territory, though other East Asian countries say it belongs to them

‘Abominable’ is about a teenage Chinese girl named Yi who helps a yeti return to Mount Everest.
Photo: Universal Studios
The animated movie Abominable will skip Malaysian theaters after producers decided against cutting out a scene showing a map supporting Chinese claims to the disputed South China Sea.
Vietnam already pulled the U.S.-Chinese production from theaters over a fleeting image of the so-called nine-dash line, a vague and broken outline depicting much of the resource-rich sea as Chinese territory. China’s claims to the sea overlap with claims by Vietnam, Malaysia and other Asian governments.