Warner Brothers that a “kids’ movie” about the iconic doll Barbie should also include Chinese Communist Party Imperialist Agit Prop. The CCP-controlled film (allegedly) included a scene that showed a drawn map showing China’s hegemony over the much-disputed South China Sea. The Imperialist fascist state expresses its complete claim over the South China Sea with something called the “nine-dash line,” a dashed line that indicates the whole South China Sea is Chinese territory. Vietnam pulled the film’s license, effectively banning it from the country over the scene.
Warner Brothers said of the scene that they meant nothing by it, that it was just a “child-like crayon drawing,” but one that distinctly showed the “nine-dash line.” Vietnam appears not to buy the excuse.
China has used the nine-dash line to claim legal authority over the whole sea. They even attempted to get the international community to recognize this claim but were rebuffed. The author of the book “The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia,” Bill Hayton, said of the Chinese assertion. “It doesn’t make any sense from a historical or legal point of view, but it’s now become this kind of emotional claim.”
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