The map is obviously ridiculous to begin with so I’m curious why it couldn’t just be a bunch of Foreign Ministry staff having a laugh while flexing their diplomatic muscle a little bit. It’s not like they have many other avenues to counteract growing Chinese geopolitical influence.
Think about the easter eggs found in all manner of serious software put in by engineers for a joke. I think anyone in Vietnam can easily pirate it if they actually want to see the movie so there’s little actual damage, as long as they don’t care about the economic impact at the box office.
It's not about what people in Vietnam see and how much money it loses. It's about message it sends, you can't simply push an agenda and get away with it.
Oh, we quite understand gEoPoLiTiCs, we are hearing it our whole lives from the incompetent wannabe empires propaganda across the border. It's when small countries doesn't matter, and individual humans doesn't even register on the radar. The only thing that matters to gEoPoLiTiCiAnS is "duo-polar world", "power projection", and aggressive annextaion of neighbors property in hopes either securing lebensraum for themselves or just sowing chaos and unrest to spite everyone. "To spite the bourgeois, we will fan the world fire"(c) Lenin classic rule, used till today by gEoPoLiTiCiAnS.
Geopolitics affect all of us, particularly the "small" countries (and they matter too, because everybody deserves to live in security and free of oppression from neighboring states). Whether you want to recognize it or not. The fact that you want to paint it as propaganda just shows how ignorant you are about the world. Read a book or two instead of wasting our time.
Think about the easter eggs found in all manner of serious software put in by engineers for a joke. I think anyone in Vietnam can easily pirate it if they actually want to see the movie so there’s little actual damage, as long as they don’t care about the economic impact at the box office.