How Barbie Wound Up in the Middle of an Asian Maritime Dispute

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‘Barbie’ will be banned from release in Vietnam, having found itself in the center of a territorial dispute.

, Barbie can be a mermaid, a doctor, a Supreme Court justice, or the president of the United States—but she’s not going to be able to do any of that in Vietnam. The country has banned the release of the Warner Bros.

film because of a map that shows China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, an area Vietnam fiercely disputes. “We do not grant license for the American movie ‘Barbie’ to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line,” read a state-run newspaper (according to

 

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