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How does it make any sense? The map in the trailer is obviously nonsense, complete gibberish that's meant to be gibberish.

Why would a random dashed line be the one they don't like to talk about?

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Perhaps this is a highly sensitive topic in Southeast Asia and even an oblique, plausibly deniable allusion to it comes across very offensively. There are similarly highly sensitive topics in the US.

Could you give some examples of topics that would result in a US ban? I can't think of any topic given the allusion is equally laughably obscure as this (if it is even an allusion at all).

The US doesn’t have the legal power to ban films due to the First Amendment, but there are definitely ideas that are so politically radioactive that any sort of veiled allusion to them (a common term is “dogwhistle”) can create massive backlash. So much so that even giving a concrete example would risk causing a massive tangential flame war, so I won’t risk it.

There's also a dashed line coming off of, Greenland is it? I'm not aware of anything that might refer to... Maybe the person who drew that map intended to evoke possible routes with those dashed lines.

Because many borders in Asia are still in dispute, similar to how Europe was prior to WWI.

Yes but it's not a map of Asia, it's a blob that says Asia on it. It doesn't look like Asia, and it doesn't have any of the countries on it. How can you mistake it for someone's opinion about the real world borders?

...and the "nine-dash line" actually has 8 dashes and doesn't delimit anything (like the "nine-dash-line" does with the part of sea claimed by China), it just kinda aimlessly snakes around there. Still, with digital distribution, is it so hard to simply edit the line out? Or would China be offended then?

I can assure that whatever shithole company produces this has a make-china-happy department, which has a checklist of best practices, and that checklist will have an item roughly like: "any time there's a map on the screen, do one of the following..."

Red Carpet, by Eric Schwartz.

Because it’s an emotional issue in Asia. Logic takes a back seat like with Taiwan

Mostly just China encroaching on borders.

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