"Barbie" movie is banned in Vietnam due to map showing 9-dash-line

'Barbie' Movie Banned in Vietnam Over Controversial South China Sea Map

Vietnam has banned screenings of 'Barbie' because of a scene featuring a map of the contested nine-dash line in the South China Sea.

www.rollingstone.com

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie will not be headed to Vietnam. The country has banned commercial screenings of the film because of a scene that shows a map of the contested “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea.

The nine-dash line is a U-shaped demarcation China has used to assert territorial claims in the South China Sea. Those claims are contested by other nations in the area, including Vietnam. While a court at the Hague issued an international arbitration ruling in 2016 repudiating the line, China has ignored the decision.

The issue is so fraught that Barbie isn’t even the first movie Vietnam has banned over maps depicting the line.

Per Reuters, a senior official in Vietnam’s Department of Cinema told the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper, “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.”

A rep for Warner Bros. did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for comment.



Prior to Barbie, the nine-dash line led the Vietnamese government to ban the 2019 animated DreamWorks film Abominable, as well as Sony’s 2022 action flick, Uncharted. Netflix also had to pull the 2021 Australian drama series Pine Gap from Vietnam over a depiction of a nine-gap line map.

I'm not going to watch this silly movie anyway, but I wonder why an US movie is showing the 9-dash-line from China?
Is this deliberate Divide and Conquer by americans?

 

[Indos]

 

[REhorror]

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That looks very political for a children's drawing.
But why?

 

[Viet]

That looks very political for a children's drawing.
But why?

There are some dots that resemble much of infamous 9 dash fck lines. Thus the ban. I think Vietnam censors don’t want to leave any room for interpretations.

 

[REhorror]

There are some dots that resemble much of infamous 9 dash fck lines. Thus the ban. I think Vietnam censors don’t want to leave any room for interpretations.

Good on them, less degenerate crap in Vietnam's theaters.
Two birds one arrow.

 

[BHAN85]

'Barbie' Movie Banned in Vietnam Over Controversial South China Sea Map

Vietnam has banned screenings of 'Barbie' because of a scene featuring a map of the contested nine-dash line in the South China Sea.

www.rollingstone.com

I'm not going to watch this silly movie anyway, but I wonder why an US movie is showing the 9-dash-line from China?
Is this deliberate Divide and Conquer by americans?

A lot of recent blockbusters American movies have Chinese producers, it started to happen one decade ago.

I dont know if this is the case, but it can be a favor in exchange for another in other movie.

Another post about sucessful sinoamerican cooperation: https://defence.pk/threads/wsj-the-...cloud-computing-services.770722/post-14428595

 

[Paro_Peagus]

A lot of recent blockbusters American movies have Chinese producers, it started to happen one decade ago.

I dont know if this is the case, but it can be a favor in exchange for another in other movie.

Another post about sucessful sinoamerican cooperation: https://defence.pk/threads/wsj-the-...cloud-computing-services.770722/post-14428595

CCP put a rule that any western movie produced by chinese production house and released in china needs to have at least one chinese actor.

What better way for Chinese billionaires to get out of china than buying a share of a foreign movie production company.

 

[MH.Yang]

CCP put a rule that any western movie produced by chinese production house and released in china needs to have at least one chinese actor.

What better way for Chinese billionaires to get out of china than buying a share of a foreign movie production company.

China does not have this provision.

 

[MH.Yang]

'Barbie' Movie Banned in Vietnam Over Controversial South China Sea Map

Vietnam has banned screenings of 'Barbie' because of a scene featuring a map of the contested nine-dash line in the South China Sea.

www.rollingstone.com

I'm not going to watch this silly movie anyway, but I wonder why an US movie is showing the 9-dash-line from China?
Is this deliberate Divide and Conquer by americans?

It's not that complicated.

If it adopts Vietnam's map of the South China Sea, then the country that will banned it will be China.

It's really a matter of market choice.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

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How do these Hollywood idiots always manage to do sh*t that causes a controversy?



If I was a major Warner Brothers stockholder (like Vanguard) I'd demand somebody's head should roll...and hopefully that wakes them up.

 

[BHAN85]

CCP put a rule that any western movie produced by chinese production house and released in china needs to have at least one chinese actor.

What better way for Chinese billionaires to get out of china than buying a share of a foreign movie production company.

I dont think that is important at all.

China is taking position as the next empire.

See around you, in you life, what products/services are Made IN USA? Movies, tv shows, and internet products/services.

Movies is soft domination, to domination through brainwashing.
Internet is a way of spy to get information about how dominate.

USA is specialised in both things. You can't see chairs or table made in USA around you, because it's not useful to dominate people.

China is starting to copy USA empire model: Smartphones, internet services (tiktok), and now hollywood movies.

 

[Kuru]

I thought China doesn’t have territorial disputes with ANY of her neighbors except India! What happened to that high IQ logic?

 

[Zsari]

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Lol. That looks more like Greenland than anything else. Map with dotted lines, must be the nine dotted lines, but it actually has 10 dotted lines, must be the 10 dotted line from ROC claim. Hilarious.

 

[S10]

That doesn't even look anything like 9 dash line.

 

[REhorror]

Whatever the argument, I support Viet govt for banning degenerate movies in Vietnam.