Photo: APIn one scene there is a map of the South China Sea with nine dashes on it and Vietnam has banned the movie "Barbie" from its cinemas
The Warner Bros. movie "Barbie," about the world's most famous doll, was supposed to premiere in Vietnamese theaters on July 21, but it won't because the Department of Cinematography, the government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films, banned it.
They were disturbed by the scene showing the map with the so-called nine lines.
The nine dashes forming a U-shaped line are markings on Chinese maps of the South China Sea that indicate Beijing's territorial claims. Namely, Vietnam is among the many countries that dispute China's right to almost the entire South China Sea.
It is unclear which scene depicts what a senior official called an "offensive image" of China's nine-dash line.
China has been trying to assert its territorial claims in the South Sea for years. In 2016, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled against it, but Beijing did not recognize the ruling.
Warner Bros.'s "Barbie" is not the only production banned by Vietnam because of the nine dashes: in 2019, the animated film "Abominable" was pulled, produced by "Dreamworks", in 2021 Netflix's Australian spy drama "Pine Gap", and last year and Sony's action film Uncharted.
The main roles in the movie "Barbie" are played by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
By the way, the marketing team behind the movie about the popular Barbie doll has launched, according to the media, a tsunami of branded partnerships, so you can find nail polishes and roller skates, dog clothes and ice creams on the Barbie theme.
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