HONOI: According to state media reports released on Monday( Jul 3 ), Vietnam has prohibited the highly anticipated Warner Bros. movie Barbie from being distributed domestically due to a scene in which China’s unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea is shown.
On Foreign maps, the U-shaped” nine-dash line” is used to show its states over sizable portions of the South China Sea, including expanses of what Vietnam considers its western table, where it has granted oil agreements.
Barbie is the most recent film to be outlawed in Vietnam for depicting China’s contentious nine-dashed series, which was rejected in 2016 by a jury in The Hague in an international arbitration decision. China is unwilling to accept the opinion.
For the same reason, the Taiwanese authorities banned Sony’s activity movie Unchartered last year and DreamWorks’ active film Abominable in 2019. In 2021, Pine Gap, an American detective drama, was even taken down by Netflix.
According to the state-run Tuoi Tre news, Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, was actually scheduled to debut in Vietnam on July 21, the same day as it did in the United States.
According to the report, which cited Vi Kien Thanh, director of the Department of Cinema, a government agency in charge of licence and censoring foreign films,” we do not offer license for the American film Barbie to launch in Vietnam because it contains the offending image-the nine-diesh line.”
A request for comment was never instantly answered by Warner Bros.
Long-standing regional says to a region of the South China Sea that may be energy-rich have been shared by Vietnam and China. The nation of Southeast Asia has frequently charged Taiwanese ships with infringing on its territory.