Rothwell, Donald2025-02-192025-02-192201-5639https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733735285The new Barbie film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is set for imminent release. But according to Vietnam’s state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper the film’s release has been barred. The head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films, said We do not grant license for the American movie ‘Barbie’ to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line Vietnam’s response to the Barbie movie’s depiction of the South China Sea shows how sensitive these matters are in South East Asia, and especially in Vietnam.application/pdfen-AU© 2023 The Conversationhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/2023-07-042023-12-24CC BY-ND 4.0