'Hollywood continues to kowtow to Chinese disinformation over 'the South China Sea issue' even at the expense of our relationships with crucial allies, including the Philippines, which is our oldest ally in the Indo-Pacific.' -TianaTheFirst
Nearly 14 years after Universal Pictures announced that it would bring a live-action Barbie to the big screen, the eponymous film starring the world's bestselling doll is going head-to-head with Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which debuts the same weekend.
Both films had a budget of $100 million, and both are battling to make close to as much in their opening weekend. Yet, only one has rattled geopolitical tensions across the Pacific Rim: not Nolan's thriller about the theoretical physicist who invented the atomic bomb, but Greta Gerwig's fantasy about a fictional doll.The film apparently features a cartoon map of the globe, with a single shapeless blob labeled"Asia.
Barbie's decision to bow down to Beijing has not come without consequences. The nine-dash line runs afoul of widely accepted international law as well as specific maritime claims of Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. As a result of the shot, Vietnam has banned early Barbie screenings, and after outcry in the Philippines, the nation's Movie and Television Review and Classification Board is deliberating whether to follow suit.
What is surprising is that Hollywood continues to kowtow to Chinese disinformation over"the South China Sea issue" even at the expense of our relationships with crucial allies, including the Philippines, which is our oldest ally in the Indo-Pacific. But in the minds of our most famous filmmakers, some audiences — even those in a genocidal state that constantly pushes new bounds of territorial aggression — are more valuable than those of our democratic allies.But for once, the U.S.
Actual Barbie dolls are manufactured by Mattel, which has maintained operations in China since the start of the century, perhaps an explanation for the film's decision to include the nine-dash line. But in the future, other films may not be so sanguine in appeasing the CCP.
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