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Shanghai Internet Information Office (Shanghai Internet Information Office) official weibo public number “net letter Shanghai” 2, pointed out that recently, netizens to the management of the H&M official website (hm.com) there are “problematic China map”, Shanghai Planning and The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources immediately notified H&M to quickly correct the situation. Sources said that H&M’s faulty China map may be suspected of publishing a map of China without the nine-dashed line. Vietnamese netizens were very angry with H&M’s practice. Vietnam claims sovereignty over the South China Sea. However, there is no wave of boycott of H&M in Vietnam.
On H&M to cooperate with China to change the map, Vietnamese netizens protect the South China Sea threatened to boycott. According to a report by the Central News Agency today, Vietnamese netizens are unhappy that H&M has agreed to cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party to rectify the so-called “problematic Chinese maps” and violate Vietnam’s claim of sovereignty over the South China Sea, and therefore threatened to boycott on the Internet. But there are only 12 H&M stores in Vietnam, so the actual state of action remains to be seen.
“Ltd. was notified to correct the error at the first time, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources and the Shanghai Internet Information Office conducted a joint interview with H&M. The “NetInfo Shanghai” notice did not specify what was wrong with H&M’s “problematic map of China,” but the Communist Party’s People’s Daily previously had a map of China with the “nine-dash line” drawn on it circulating widely on Weibo. The map was widely circulated on microblogs, and the back-and-forth has led to H&M being shot at and threatened with boycott by Vietnamese netizens, who have always claimed sovereignty over the South China Sea.
The report said a Vietnamese netizen argued that “it is necessary to boycott brands that ignore the feelings of Vietnamese consumers and violate Vietnam’s territorial sovereignty and integrity.” A Vietnamese netizen also declared, “What H&M did is not in line with international law and is clearly going against the international community.” However, despite sparking some anger on the internet, H&M has only 12 stores across Vietnam. the first H&M store in Vietnam opened in Ho Chi Minh City in September 2017; to date, there are five in Hanoi, four in Ho Chi Minh City, and one each in Can Tho, Halong and Da Nang.
According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), H&M declined to comment on cooperating with the rectification of the “problematic China map,” the Central News Agency said.
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