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The Philippines is just as keen as Vietnam is to ban films showing the nine-dash line<\/a>, and has done so in the past. Nevertheless, the Philippine censor board has decided to allow the release of the forthcoming Barbie<\/em> movie, but has asked Warner Bros. to blur the offending map, which is apparently only eight dashes (and therefore okay) and too cartoonish to be linked to a controversial line on a real map. Coverage: BBC News<\/a>, Guardian<\/em><\/a>, Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>, Variety<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

That follows the Warner Bros. line; last Thursday Variety<\/em> reported the Warner Bros. response to Barbie<\/em> being banned in Vietnam<\/a>: \u201c\u2018The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing,\u2019 a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group told Variety<\/em>. \u2018The doodles depict Barbie\u2019s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the \u201creal world.\u201d It was not intended to make any type of statement.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

(Based on the screenshots I\u2019ve seen, all it is is a dashed line extending east from a wildly inaccurate Asia; there are dashed lines elsewhere on the map that suggest routes more than borders.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Philippines is just as keen as Vietnam is to ban films showing the nine-dash line, and has done so in the past. 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