Crossing the nine-dash line — Radio Free Asia

Vietnam has banned the discharge of the Warner Bros function movie “Barbie” as a result of its trailer features a crude cartoon map that Vietnamese netizens believed depicted China’s “nine-dash line” territorial claims within the emotive South China Sea maritime territorial dispute. The choice mystified the studio, which stated the map that prompted Hanoi to drag the film was a “child-like crayon drawing” that traced Barbie’s travels and carried no political message.