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Some also noted that the nine-dash line in that scene appears to lie very far from Asia. A scene in “Barbie” with a map depicting contested territory in the South China Sea.

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The film contains a scene that depicts a map with the “nine dash line,” a representation of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, which Vietnam says violates its sovereignty.

Earlier this week, Vietnam's National Film Evaluation Council banned all domestic screenings of Barbie over the map that included the nine-dash line.

But it's far from the first time this has happened. Just last year, Vietnam banned the Sony action film “Uncharted” because it really did show a map featuring the nine-dash line.

Vietnam banned screenings of the upcoming Barbie film over a map that appears to depict Beijing’s disputed “nine-dash line” claim in the South China Sea.

Vietnam has banned the movie Barbie from domestic distribution due to a scene that shows a map of the disputed South China Sea, VnExpress news website reported.

The nine-dash line's origin After World War II, China published a map in the late 1940s, showing a U-shaped line.