Vietnam’s communist government has banned domestic screenings of the forthcoming film “Barbie” over a scene from the movie that shows a map of China’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea, according to reports from Asia.
The highly-anticipated Warner Brothers movie includes a scene showing China’s “Nine-Dash Line” — a U-shaped border covering most of the sea that Beijing claims as its territory and other states, including Vietnam and the United States, say is international waters.
“We do not grant [a] license for the American movie ‘Barbie’ to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the Nine-Dash Line,” the newspaper stated, citing Vi Kien Thanh, director of the Department of Cinema, the government agency in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films, Reuters reported from Hanoi.
A report by two Army officers published by the Naval Postgraduate School concluded that China’s market clout is influencing Hollywood studios and the government is using American films to promote communist propaganda as part of a larger strategy seeking global hegemony. The report noted that Disney Co. worked closely with Chinese authorities for the remake of the 2020 movie “Mulan,” based on an original Chinese tale.
Vietnam for at least a decade has been locked in a maritime dispute with China over the Paracel Islands that both nations claim as their territory. In 2016, the Netherlands-based Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected China’s claims to owning 90% of the South China Sea, in a case brought by the Philippines in 2013.
Vietnam has claimed the Paracels are within its exclusive economic zone, an area designated under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The convention states that nations can claim territorial seas stretching 12 nautical miles from their coasts, including islands, but excluding rocks and submerged features.
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