Senator Ted Cruz unleashed boxed-up anger at the upcoming “Barbie” movie for including what his office called Chinese communist propaganda in the anticipated summer blockbuster, out Jul…
“China wants to control what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think, and they leverage their massive film markets to coerce American companies into pushing [Chinese Communist Party] propaganda — just like the way the Barbie film seems to have done with the map,” a representative for CruzFor many years, western nations like the United Kingdom, France and Australia have also contested China’s claims to the area and the nation’s assertive policies in the region.
The “Barbie” movie has come under fire for using a pro-China map over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
“This is why any legitimacy given to the nine-dash line, even in Hollywood movies, is so sensitive,” Rothwell added.Tom Holland’s 2022 film “Uncharted” was among a bevy of recent films barred from Vietnam for showing the nine-dash line.
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