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Netflix has pulled an Australian spy show from its services in Vietnam over scenes containing a map of the South China Sea showing Beijing s claims in the flashpoint waterway.
The map - shown briefly in two episodes of Pine Gap - had prompted a complaint from the southeast Asian country s broadcasting authority.
China has long used its so-called nine-dash line to justify its claims over most of the resource-rich South China Sea, often to the displeasure of Vietnam, which also claims parts of the waterway.
Vietnam s Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information said on its website that the images shown during the six-episode drama had violated the country s sovereignty over sea and islands .
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