Ted Cruz slams new Barbie movie for ‘pushing Chinese propaganda’

Senator Ted Cruz slammed the makers of the upcoming Barbie film for trying to “appease the Chinese Communist Party” after Vietnam banned the film over scenes featuring a map showing China’s claims to territory in the South China Sea. The movie about the doll, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is set to be released in the country on July 21. to ban the film due to scenes with the so-called nine-dash line, state media reported.

A spokesman for Senator Cruz sent a statement to DailyMail.com calling out the film for “pushing Chinese propaganda.” “Senator Cruz has been fighting for years to prevent American companies, especially Hollywood studios, from modifying and censoring their content to appease the Chinese Communist Party,” he said. China wants to control what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think, and they are using their huge movie markets to force American companies to push CCP propaganda — just as the Barbie movie seems to have done with the map. Senator Cruz deserves credit for reversing these trends.”

The statement also referred to legislation Senator Cruz drafted and passed in 2022 to prevent government cooperation for “films that engage in precisely this kind of censorship.” Beijing has been building military bases on artificial islands within its border for years and often conducts patrols there in an attempt to enforce its territorial claims. China has long used its so-called nine-dash line to demonstrate its vast claims to most of the resource-rich sea, often to the dismay of the Vietnamese, who also claim part of the waterway. The border is also disputed by others including the Philippines, Taiwan and Malaysia.

“The film review board has reviewed the film and made the decision to ban the screening of this film in Vietnam due to a violation related to the ‘nine dash line,'” Vi Kien Thanh, director of Vietnam’s Department of Cinema, told the broadcaster. Dan Tri news. place. Another state media outlet, Tien Phong, reported that the nine dashes scene appeared several times in the film. All films in Vietnam must be approved by censors who screen for senseless, suggestive violence [sexual] scenes or politically sensitive material.

Last year, the showing of the action-and-adventure movie starring Tom Holland, Uncharted, was halted due to scenes with the same line. The same was also the case in 2019, when Abominable was banned in Vietnam and Netflix was told to remove episodes of the Pine Gap series. And in 2018, Vietnam cut a scene from the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians that featured a designer bag with a world map showing that the disputed islands in the South China Sea were under Beijing’s control. The South China Sea is home to valuable oil and gas resources and shipping lanes, and several of China’s neighbors have expressed concern that Beijing is trying to expand its reach. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12261395/Texas-Senator-Ted-Cruz-slams-new-Margot-Robbie-movie-pushing-Chinese-propaganda.html?ito =msnggallery

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