As she’s wont to do, Barbie courts controversy in Southeast Asia over “nine-dash line”
trailer, as Vietnamese writer Nguyên Lê noted.Local politicians have responded to the controversy by calling for bans on the film.
“If the invalidated nine-dash line was indeed depicted in the movie, then it is incumbent upon the MTRCB to ban the same as it denigrates Philippine sovereignty,” Senator Francis Tolentino toldPhilippines Senator Risa Hontiveros posted a video statement on YouTube. “The movie is fiction, and so is the nine-dash line,” she said. “At the minimum, our cinemas should include an explicit disclaimer that the nine-dash line is a figment of China’s imagination.
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