Texas Senator Ted Cruz Denounces New Margot Robbie Film For ‘Pushing Chinese Propaganda’

Senator Ted Cruz slammed the makers of the upcoming Barbie movie for trying to “appease the Chinese Communist Party” after Vietnam banned the movie about scenes with a map view Chinaclaims 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.

However, the schedule is no longer on the websites of major Vietnamese cinema chains following the government’s decision to ban the film due to scenes featuring 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.

The film’s schedule is no longer on the websites of major Vietnamese cinema chains following the government’s decision to ban the film due to scenes featuring the so-called nine-dash line, state media reported.

The Nine-Dash Line is a maritime boundary in the South China Sea drawn up by China, which claims to own the area within the line

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 refers to legislation Senator Cruz wrote and passed in 2022 prevent the government from cooperating with ‘films that adhere to exactly 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 of the ‘nine dash line,'” Vi Kien Thanh, director of Vietnam’s Department of Cinema, told 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 gratuitous violence, suggestive sex scenes or politically sensitive material.

The new Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling has been pulled back in Vietnam for nine dash line scenes in the South China Sea

Uncharted, starring Tom Holland, was also banned in Vietnam due to scenes featuring the nine-dash line

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.