The “Barbie” film may blur a map of Chinese maritime claims and will be proven, the Philippine Movie and Television Review and Classification Board introduced Wednesday.

Vietnam has already banned the movie over a scene displaying a map of the South China Sea with sprint traces on the ocean. Vietnam claimed the map confirmed the nine-dash line, Chinese claims on the shoals, islands and features of maritime management in what Vietnam calls the East Sea.

The nine-dash line cleaves near the coasts of Vietnam, the Philippine islands of Luzon and Palawan, and the northeastern coast of the island of Borneo shared by Malaysia and Brunei.

The Chinese sea claims are as a lot a difficulty with the Philippines as with Vietnam. Since 2011, authorities companies, together with the MTRCB, have referred to as the portion of the ocean within the Philippines’ financial zone the West Philippine Sea.

As against the Vietnamese authorities, the Philippines MTRCB decided that the map was cartoonish in nature.

“The review committee is convinced that the contentious scene does not depict the ‘nine-dash line.’ Instead, the map portrayed the route of the make-believe journey of Barbie from Barbie Land to the ‘real world,’ as an integral part of the story,” the MTRCB defined in an announcement.

The MTRCB reiterated that it will not hesitate to ban movies, equivalent to 2022’s “Uncharted,” decided to point out the Chinese sea claims.

While a 2016 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea tribunal dominated in opposition to the Chinese declare traces, the group has no enforcement mechanism. The Chinese authorities doesn’t acknowledge its verdict as legitimate.

“Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, arrives in theaters within the Philippines on July 19.

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