Senator Francis Tolentino said the MTRCB has approved the commercial screening of highly anticipated film “Barbie” despite its depiction of China’s infamous nine-dash line. READ:
MTRCB, on the other hand, refuted the alleged depiction of China’s infamous nine-dash line, saying that the lines attached to a landmass labelled as Asia in the movie is “not U-shaped” and has “eight dots or dashes” instead of nine.
The U-shaped “nine-dash line” is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its unilateral claim over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swathes of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions.
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