Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has accused the Barbie movie of pushing Chinese propaganda upon revelations that Vietnam banned the movie for its use of a map for reportedly “Nine-Dash Line” in it, a fake border that the Chinese government uses to show it controls a majority of the South China Sea.
In a statement quoted by state media, Vietnam’s Department of Cinema chief Vi Kien Thanh said the country will not “grant license for the American movie ‘Barbie’ to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the Nine-Dash Line.”
As Breitbart News reported, the “Nine-Dash Line” has no international recognition and it was soundly defeated by an international court in 2016.
“China simply ignored the court ruling and proceeded as though its territorial claims were legitimate,” said the report. “Vietnam, a fellow communist nation, has its own…
