Barbie Movie Banned in Vietnam

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 25: Margot Robbie attends the press junket and photo call For “Barbie” at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)

According to The New York Times, the highly anticipated Barbie movie will not be showing in Vietnam. The country has banned the film due to a scene that features the so-called “nine-dash line” on a map, which depicts the majority of territory in the South China Sea as belonging to China. State newspaper Vietnam Plus writes that featuring the line in the movie “distorts the truth, violates the law in general and violates the sovereignty of Vietnamese territory in particular.”