We really wouldn't want to be Ted Cruz's daughters right now ... or any time for that matter, but especially now, because it's clear he's not going to take them to see the new 'Barbie' movie after his recent tirade on Fox News.
Cruz's problem is over something so minute that you'll need the zoom feature on your browser to see it.
Cruz starts by admitting,"I have not seen the movie," but he has seen one very specific part of it: Barbie's map. There's a scene in the movie where Barbie draws a map of the world as she prepares to go on her trip to the real world, and Cruz noticed an odd little feature next to a large clump of scribbled Crayon called"Asia." It's a curved, dotted line.
"What those lines indicate is the Communist Party of China puts out official maps with those nine dashes and they're asserting sovereignty over the entire South China sea," Cruz said."They're saying all of that is China's and, by the way all of their neighbors disagree." That's it. That tiny line of dashes on Barbie's map is the biggest problem Sen. Ted Cruz has with the newThe"nine dashes" Cruz is referring to the"nine-dash line" maritime map drafted by the People's Republic of China, which claims its borders extend to the South China Sea situated between Vietnam and the Philippines.
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