Vietnam's response to the "Barbie" movie's depiction of the South China Sea shows how sensitive these matters are in South East Asia, and especially in Vietnam. What is the nine-dash line?

The new "Barbie" movie has been banned in Vietnam due to a scene featuring a map with the "nine-dash line", which illustrates China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The Barbie film will not be released in Vietnam over its apparent inclusion of a controversial marking in a map of the South China Sea. Starring Margot Robbie as the iconic doll, Barbie was ...

Vietnam is withdrawing from the Barbie World. The upcoming "Barbie" movie from Warner Bros. has been banned in Vietnam due to a scene with a map showing territory in the South China Sea that China ...

Moviegoers in Vietnam won’t get to see Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” film on July 21 as scheduled. Vietnam authorities have banned commercial screenings of the movie over a “nine-dash line” map.

Vietnam has pulled DreamWorks’ animated film “Abominable” from cinemas over a scene featuring a map which shows China’s unilaterally declared “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea ...

Vietnam banned Sony and Tom Holland’s action adventure film Uncharted over the weekend because of a scene featuring a map that shows China’s favored territorial claims in the South China Sea ...

A version of this article appears in print on July 5, 2023, Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Vietnam Bans ‘Barbie’ Movie Over South China Sea Map.

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to help ...

Barbie is not the first film to be blocked in Vietnam for using the contentious line, with Uncharted starring Tom Holland facing the same dilemma last year. Animated films aren’t exempt either ...