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Cotton_Eye_Joe
07/12/23 2:30:25 AM
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It got banned in nam

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FolkenRawr
07/12/23 2:35:26 AM
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Afaik there's a blip of a map that shows part of an ocean as international waters, but China claims is theirs

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Karovorak
07/12/23 2:40:32 AM
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FolkenRawr posted...
Afaik there's a blip of a map that shows part of an ocean as international waters, but China claims is theirs

It's a bit... stranger than that.

This is a map of the chinese sea, with the 9 dash line showing the area that China claims as if it were theirs:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/6/AAelttAAEprW.jpg

As you can see, this is some big bullshit, and other countries there are a bit angry about it.

So, Vietnam thinks that the map in the Barbie movie is also showing this 9 dash line, and territorial claims of China, making it more "acknowledged"

Behold, the map in question:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/7/AAelttAAEprX.jpg
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FolkenRawr
07/12/23 2:43:14 AM
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Lmao I hadn't actually seen the map. Spectacular

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Karovorak
07/12/23 2:51:09 AM
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FolkenRawr posted...
Lmao I hadn't actually seen the map. Spectacular

No one did.

The last topic here, a week ago or something, was a bit more heated. Everyone (most) was sure that the movie / WB was catering or shilling for China, because such things don't happen "by chance".
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Senta
07/12/23 2:54:00 AM
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Really, they should be overjoyed.
An in-movie fake and inaccurate map showing something they don't like?

Take it as the movie saying it's fake.and.not.accurate to the real world, and run with it.

If it was a real world map, and not some crayon drawn thing by a child, meant to clearly be wrong, they'd have a point.

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VampireCoyote
07/12/23 2:54:21 AM
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China can suck a butt

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action52
07/12/23 2:57:25 AM
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Karovorak posted...
Behold, the map in question:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/7/AAelttAAEprX.jpg
lol I knew the "controversy" was stupid but I hadn't seen the map yet

this is next level stupid

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Torgo
07/12/23 3:01:25 AM
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Karovorak posted...
No one did.

The last topic here, a week ago or something, was a bit more heated. Everyone (most) was sure that the movie / WB was catering or shilling for China, because such things don't happen "by chance".

The right wing who used to love China as a shining beacon of capitalism winning out over communism have been hating China and putting them at the center of multiple conspiracy theories ever since they humiliated Donald Trump with his failed trade war that left American farmers needing a bailout.

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YellowSUV
07/12/23 3:21:24 AM
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Karovorak posted...


Behold, the map in question:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/7/AAelttAAEprX.jpg

Unless I'm seeing wrong since the map is blurry, that map only has 8 lines.

This is one of the stupidest controversies in recent history. Movies constantly pander to the CCP, but this isn't one of those times.


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Sonic_Cannon
07/12/23 3:29:01 AM
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YellowSUV posted...
Unless I'm seeing wrong since the map is blurry, that map only has 8 lines.

This is one of the stupidest controversies in recent history. Movies constantly pander to the CCP, but this isn't one of those times.
this

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Karovorak
07/12/23 3:31:09 AM
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YellowSUV posted...
Unless I'm seeing wrong since the map is blurry, that map only has 8 lines.

I mean, the line doesn't have 9 dashes but 8, it's no border at all because it's not closed, it just goes away from some fantasy "Asia" with no similarity with the real asia except it's on the eastern side of the world map, and "China" isn't even written on the map at all.

This is one of the stupidest controversies in recent history. Movies constantly pander to the CCP, but this isn't one of those times.
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Glob
07/12/23 3:54:23 AM
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Vietnam is a bit ban happy on movies at the moment.

I ended up watching John Wick 4 on the plane because its banned in Vietnam.
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Priere
07/12/23 3:59:22 AM
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Glob posted...
Vietnam is a bit ban happy on movies at the moment.

I ended up watching John Wick 4 on the plane because its banned in Vietnam.
Why is John wick banned? Because they have a Chinese guy and a Japanese guy but no Vietnamese guys?

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Glob
07/12/23 4:01:18 AM
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Priere posted...
Why is John wick banned? Because they have a Chinese guy and a Japanese guy but no Vietnamese guys?

Because Donnie Yen has publicly stated that he supports Chinas claims regarding the seas involved in all the Barbie controversy, as I understand it.
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