Vietnam probes Blackpink concert organiser over South China Sea map
One AmericaAUG 2023
Philippine censors did not arrive at the decision to allow the screening of the Barbie film lightly and meticulously reviewed the film to ensure it did not depict the fictitious nine-dash-line. In past situations, regulators have been more than willing to sanction filmmakers, producers, and distributors for exhibiting the fictitious ‘nine-dash line’ in their materials, and popular films have recently been banned from being shown in the country. Manilla exercised due diligence and fairness here.
This whole controversy is absurd. The map in the Barbie movie was obviously a childish drawing of a world map and not a divisive political statement. The film is about a children's toy come to life and it is mindboggling that such a small moment in such an inoffensive film was taken so seriously as a geopolitical controversy.