A map featuring the illegal nine-dash line. Vietnam Southern Power Corporation reported it found inverters containing the nine-dash line map on the southern market - PHOTO: VNA

EVN asked its members on November 8 to promptly check and review all equipment, software and technical materials to discover and eliminate the illegal nine-dash line map.

The nine-dash line map was created by China to illegally claim areas of the South China Seas as part of its own territory. The United Nations ruled against this extension of Chinese territory in 2016.

On the same day, Vietnam Southern Power Corporation (EVNSPC) reported it found inverters containing the nine-dash line map on the southern market, according to EVN.

EVN said that use of the map was part of the foreign country’s propaganda campaign to distort facts, negatively affecting Vietnam’s sovereignty and security, and violating prevailing regulations.

The group also told its members to distribute warnings about the illicit nine-dash map to their employees, partners and customers to stop them from buying and using equipment that feature it.

In addition, the group ordered its members to report to authorities when finding their partners or customers using equipment and software bearing the illegal nine-dash line map.

“If partners and customers fail to stop using the illegal equipment, the power suppliers must suspend power supplies and cancel all transactions with these partners and customers,” a representative of EVN was quoted as saying by Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper.

Recently, a number of cases in which goods and products displaying the illegal nine-dash line were imported into Vietnam for sale or exhibition have emerged in the local market, typically found in imported autos, including seven found bearing the nine-dash line on their navigation app in Haiphong City.

HCMC also faced a similar incident, with a Volkswagen car found containing a navigation app that featured the illegal nine-dash line at Vietnam Motor Show 2019.

Besides this, the illegal nine-dash map also appeared in a Chinese school textbook at Hanoi University of Business and Technology (HUBT), and in some scenes from the movie “Abominable,” marketed in Vietnam as “Everest – The Little Yeti.”

Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh admitted at a question-and-answer session on November 6 during the ongoing sitting of the National Assembly that multiple products imported from China featuring the illegal nine-dash line had entered Vietnam recently due to legal loopholes. SGT

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