‘Barbie’ Movie Banned In Vietnam Over Controversial Map

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Officials in Vietnam reportedly banned ‘Barbie’ for showing China’s nine-dash line on a map of the South China Sea, a territorial claim the country disputes.

China claims almost all territory in the South China Sea and illustrates this on maps using the U-shaped nine-dash line, a controversial and unilateral interpretation rejected by numerous countries with overlapping claims, including Vietnam.The movie, which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, had reportedly been slated to open in Vietnam on July 21.is one of the most hotly anticipated releases of the summer.

and memes about the film—particularly it sharing a release date with another hotly anticipated movie with a markedly less upbeat tone,—have raised expectations for performance at the box office. It is far from the first film to be prohibited in the region over the inclusion of the nine-dash line. Dreamworks’s

 

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