LOS ANGELES - Warner Bros studio on Thursday said a map in its upcoming Barbie movie of the South China Sea is a “childlike” drawing with no...
Vietnamese authorities objected to a scene showing a map that includes the so-called nine-dash line, the newspaper said.
The U-shaped line is used on Chinese maps to illustrate China’s claims over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swaths of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions. “We do not grant licence for the American movie Barbie to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line,” the newspaper reported, citing Mr Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licencing and censoring foreign films.
Barbie is the latest movie to be banned in Vietnam for depicting China’s nine-dash line, which was repudiated in an, ahead of the group’s concert in Hanoi, over criticism from fans that it shows a map of the South China Sea with disputed boundaries. - REUTERS
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