VIETNAM — Vietnam has made a bold move by yanking DreamWorks film Abominable from movie theaters because of a scene that includes China's ridiculous South China Sea map. <br />According to BBC, Abominable is about a Chinese girl who discovers a yeti on her roof and is a joint China-DreamWorks production. <br />Well here's the first problem. A Chinese girl wouldn't find a yeti on her roof because yetis are from Tibet. Just saying. <br />BBC reports that one scene in the movie shows China's unilaterally declared "nine-dash line' map, which carves out an enormous area in the sea that is nowhere even close to China. <br />The thing is, Vietnam, as well as Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, and Malaysia all make claims to parts of the sea. <br />According to BBC, the movie was jointly produced by Shanghai-based Pearl Studio and DreamWorks and was first shown in Vietnam on October 4. <br />Vietnamese moviegoers quickly spotted China's fake map and began sharing screenshot over social media. <br />The government then did the right thing and quickly announced the film was getting yanked from theaters. <br />The move comes at a time of heightened tensions between Vietnam and China. <br />Well apparently that's what you get when filming a make-believe movie—make-believe maps.
