2023-07-03 20:39:43
Updated Monday, July 3, 2023 – 20:39
Represents China’s territorial claims to this disputed region
Margot Robbie, protagonist of Barbie, yesterday during the presentation of the film in Seoul. AFP Margot Robbie The evolution of her style to become a Barbie dressed in pink
The Vietnamese authorities confirmed on Monday the ban of the movie “Barbie” by a scene showing the map of the South China Sea with a U-shaped dotted line represents territorial claims of China over this disputed region.
“Barbie” starring Margot Robbie y Ryan Goslingwas scheduled to open in Vietnam on July 21, the same date as in the United States.
However, Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Department of Cinema within the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, confirmed today to the Thanh Nien news portal that finally the tape will not be distributed in the pas.
“We do not license the American film ‘Barbie’ to be released in Vietnam because it contains an offensive image”points out the Vietnamese official in reference to the aforementioned map.
The U-shaped boundary that encompasses almost the entire South China Sea (called the East Sea in Vietnam) appears on Chinese maps and is a matter of controversy for Vietnam and China. other passes in the area with which the giant Asia maintains a conflict for total or partial sovereignty of the Spratly and Paracel Islands.
“Barbie” is the last banned movie in Vietnam for using the controversial map, after the animated film “Abominable” was withdrawn in 2019 and the action film “Uncharted” was censored last year.
In 2021, the plataforma Netflix also removed the Australian series of “Pine Gap” spies for the same reason.
In recent years, there have been multiple episodes of tension between Beijing and Hani over the incursion of Chinese survey vessels into Vietnamese territorial waters and the occasional harassment of Vietnamese fishing vessels by Chinese vessels.
Beijing claims almost all of this maritime space, where it has built facilities for military use on several islets, and which is also partly disputed by Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Bruni and Taiwan.
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