A Single Map Got the Barbie Movie Banned From a Country

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The Barbie movie was banned in Vietnam because the film featured a world map depicting the South China Sea as Chinese territory using the nine-dash line. Margot Robbie herself was reportedly denied a visa to enter Vietnam for a year. What was likely a background-design oversight became a full international incident — proof that small visual choices in globally distributed films carry geopolitical weight.

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