Malaysia Orders China Map Cut From ‘Abominable’ Film as Furor Widens

Malaysia Orders China Map Cut From ‘Abominable’ Film as Furor Widens
Bikers go past an empty space where a promotional poster for the DreamWorks film "Abominable" stood before being taken down at a cinema in Hanoi, Vietnam on Oct. 14, 2019. Kham/Reuters
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KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia’s film censors have ordered a scene removed from the animated movie “Abominable” which shows China’s “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea, an official said on Oct. 17, amid growing anger among countries with overlapping claims in the waterway.

The U-shaped line is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its territorial claims over vast expanses of the resource-rich South China Sea, including areas claimed by other countries.