Seemingly hell-bent on courting controversy within the again half of 2021, Netflix quietly eliminated two episodes of the spy drama Pine Gap from the Philippines on Monday after the nation accused the streaming service of accidentally-maybe-on-purpose depicting a map that legitimizes China’s claims to the South China Sea.

According to Reuters, Netflix posted an announcement for Filipino customers on Monday claiming that the second and third episodes of the six-part Australian collection had been “removed by government demand.” The map in query—which seems briefly in a spy base management room—had made use of the so-called nine-dash line, which China makes use of to demarcate the disputed territory within the South China Sea it lays claim to, which incorporates the Philippines, Vietnam, and a number of other hundred different small islands and atolls.

Like the Philippines, Vietnam additionally vociferously maintains its sovereignty, and in addition issued a written legal demand asking Netflix to take away the content material again in July in compliance with native regulation.

In an announcement obtained by Reuters, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) stated that the Philippines’ film classification board had carried out a radical overview and decided that the episodes wherein the map seems have been “unfit for public exhibition.” Although Netflix introduced its choice to take away the content material on Nov. 1, the Philippine movies board had delivered that ruling greater than a month earlier on Sept. 28, and it was not instantly clear what accounted for the hole in time.

In its ruling, the board famous that the map’s inclusion of the demarcation traces was “no accident as it was consciously designed and calculated to specifically convey a message that China’s nine-dash line legitimately exists.”

“Such portrayal,” the DFA stated, “is a crafty attempt to perpetuate and memorialize in the consciousness of the present generation of viewers and the generations to come the illegal nine-dash line.”