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Vietnam has banned the show film Barbie produced by Warner Bros. Not without reason, the Vietnamese government considers that there are several sections that display maps of areas claimed unilaterally by China in the South China Sea.
News about the banning of the Barbie film was published in local Vietnamese media. According to Reuters, there are nine U-shaped dotted lines used on Chinese maps to illustrate claims to its vast territory in the South China Sea.
“Including areas that Vietnam considers to be the cornerstone of its territory, where Vietnam has granted oil concessions,” wrote the statement from the Vietnamese government’s Tuoi Tre kabae letter.
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Barbie is the latest film to be banned in Vietnam due to controversy. In the film, there is a depiction of line nine which was rejected in an international arbitration decision by a court in The Hague in 2016.
China refuses to recognize the decision. In 2019, the Vietnamese government withdrew the DreamWorks animated film Abominable and banned Sony’s Unchartered film for the same reason.
Netflix is also removing the Australian spy drama film Pine Gap in 2021.
Barbie movies starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling was originally scheduled to open in Vietnam on July 21, or the same date as the US release.
The newspaper explained that the government had not granted a license for Barlie’s film to be released in Vietnam because it contained offensive nine-dash line images.
“We decided to ban it from being shown in Vietnam,” said the head of the Film Department, Vi Kien Thanh, who is in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films coming into Vietnam.
Vietnam and China are known to have long had overlapping territorial claims over potentially energy-rich areas in the South China Sea. The Southeast Asian country has repeatedly accused Chinese ships of violating its sovereignty.
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2023-07-04 02:20:11
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