Ted Cruz accuses new Barbie film of ‘pushing Chinese language propaganda’

Ted Cruz is accusing the extremely anticipated Barbie movie of “pushing Chinese language propaganda,” after a trailer for the Warner Bros launch appeared to indicate a map referencing China’s disputed claims to the South China Sea.

“Senator Cruz has been combating for years to stop American corporations, particularly Hollywood studios, from altering and censoring their content material to appease the Chinese language Communist Get together,’ a spokesperson for the Texas Republican told The Daily Mail.

The difficulty stems again to the so-called “nine-dash line” used on Chinese language maps, illustrating what it claims are its posessions inside the South China Sea.

The road, first printed on Chinese language maps within the Forties, demarks an space 1,200 miles from the Chinese language mainlaind comprised greater than 80 per cent of the South China Sea, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Elements of the territory inside the line, a busy fishing and commerce hall with worthwhile oil and gasoline deposits in addition to strategic significance, are claimed by nations together with Vietnam and the Philippines.

A few minute into the Barbie movie’s principal trailer, a map of the world could be seen with a line of eigh dots jutting off a cartoonish drawing of Asia.

The Impartial has contacted Warner Bros for remark.

The Republican Texas senator isn’t the one one upset concerning the map.

Vietnam reportedly banned the movie over the obvious reference to the Chinese language claims.

The choice was issued by the nation’s Central Council of Movie Analysis and Classification, Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Vietnam Cinema Division, told theTuoi Tre newspaper on Monday.

The movie was set to premiere within the nation on 21 July, the identical time because it hit US screens.

It’s not the primary time the territorial claims have impacted a Hollywood launch.

Showings of the motion movie Uncharted in Vietnam have been halted final 12 months for a similar cause. The map dispute additionally led Vietnam to chop a scene from the 2018 smash Loopy Wealthy Asians, based on the Mail.

The territorial dispute over the South China Sea territory at situation was introduced before The Hague in 2016, the place China misplaced on most of its claims. Beijing has not accepted the judgment.