For them to add that line to a map with an otherwise extremely low level of detail and realism seems like it must have been intentional. I have just as little sympathy for the studio as I would if they had snuck in a swastika.

The line is coming out of northern Russia in the Arctic on the map (you can see the Kamchatka Peninsula), there's another line in the Atlantic, and it doesn't have the right amount of dashes.

Hanlon's Razor seems to apply.

swastika is pretty common holy symbol in India, since thousands of years, a few decades of nazi use is not going to change that.

My mom never heard of Germany or Nazi or World War 2. She will happily draw swastikas during festivals.

Really? You look at that, and think, "Ah, yes; they are obviously correct that this random wavy dashed line on this completely garbled map coming off of a part of "Asia" that might be China (or might be Russia, or might be nowhere in particular) is clearly representing this very specific political delineator China uses, that is U-shaped and has a specific number of dashes that the line on the map does not appear to have."

It seems to me that a map like this is a Rorschach test—you'll see in it whatever you expect to find.

Indeed why are they doing this? Just to pander to the chinese govt. That itself should warrant a ban in more places than just vietnam.

It makes this story even more interesting to me that the line would even appear on a map that is drawn like that - it looks like a toddler drew it. Crazy.

Thanks. I don't understand why it wasn't in the article in the first place.

Crazy that they added such a specific detail to a map that looks like ... that. I agree with Vietnam that it has to be a deliberate move towards being nice to China.

I can barely even recognize where Europe is supposed to be. I get why Vietnam is mad but it's kinda funny to see that the map in question is extremely abstract. The whole world should ban this movie because it seems like no territory on it is correct.

You really have to know that it's about the small dotted line next to China. So I do get it, it can be seen as very sneaky propaganda.

That's only eight dashes, though.

Only 8 dashes, I wonder if ASEAN will ban the movie for not existing.