Vietnam banned the
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Donald Rothwell is a professor of international law at Australian National University . The 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. What is the nine-dash line? The South China Sea has a long history of being contested. China and Vietnam engaged in military clashes over the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in 1974 and 1988