{"id":1964834,"date":"2023-07-05T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/detail-on-map-in-barbie-movie-kowtows-to-chinese-communists-infuriates-other-asian-nations\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T16:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:58:20","slug":"detail-on-map-in-barbie-movie-kowtows-to-chinese-communists-infuriates-other-asian-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/detail-on-map-in-barbie-movie-kowtows-to-chinese-communists-infuriates-other-asian-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Map in &#8216;Barbie&#8217; Movie Angers Asian Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdetail-on-map-in-barbie-movie-kowtows-to-chinese-communists-infuriates-other-asian-nations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1964834&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>You\u2019ve come a long way, Barbie.<\/h2>\n<p>Americans might have expected controversy over a movie about the iconic Mattel doll to run along the same battle-of-the-sexes lines that have been drawn around the toy in the more than 60 years since it launched.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to the leftist morals of Hollywood, the fight has moved into the realm of world politics, and with the \u201cBarbie\u201d movie\u2019s release date still a little more than two weeks away, the movie makers are already bowing to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the report from WGN-TV in Chicago:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It might seem impossible to inject a burning point of international tension into a fluff-brained, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-parents-group-demands-netflix-be-investigated-for-pornographic-show-involving-middle-schoolers\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Parents Group Demands Netflix Be Investigated For Pornographic Show Involving Middle-Schoolers\">live-action movie<\/a> about a children\u2019s toy, but creative leftists are nothing if not creatively leftist.<\/p>\n<p>And in the \u201cBarbie\u201d case, they\u2019ve injected a brief scene into the movie that just happens to take the side of the Chinese Communist government in a dispute over maritime territory involving China and its Pacific neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>The scene includes a map of the world, drawn in a child\u2019s scrawl, that shows the rough geographical position of major points of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-prime-minister-vows-retaliation-for-irans-attack-on-oil-tanker\/\" title=\"Israeli Prime Minister vows retaliation for Iran\u2019s attack on oil tanker\">global interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Do you plan to see the &#8220;Barbie&#8221; movie?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next to the landmass labeled \u201cAsia,\u201d are purely gratuitous dashes that represent the Beijing government\u2019s claim to the waters of the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The disputed waters \u201care also being fought over by Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/china-reacts-barbie-movie-depicts-controversial-map-favored-beijing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Sobolik, a former aide to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, called out the scene in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.@wbpictures bends the knee to the genocidal CCP regime to make a buck.https:\/\/t.co\/FdtXbAUDou<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Sobolik (@michaelsobolik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelsobolik\/status\/1675836360089821185?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[Warner Bros. Pictures] bends the knee to the genocidal CCP regime to make a buck,\u201d he wrote. Much of the filming was done at Warner Bros. studios in Watford, England, according to the entertainment news website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.distractify.com\/p\/barbie-movie-filming-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Distractify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Asian neighbors are infuriated.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam has already banned the movie, according to Fox. Philippine lawmakers are considering doing the same. Anyone even faintly interested in fairness would agree they have a point. But anyone familiar with the world population knows that the Chinese movie market dwarfs either of them \u2014 and for Hollywood, that\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-makes-huge-mistake-challenging-ted-cruz-gives-unforgettable-history-lesson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cruz<\/a>, were critical.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thanks for the heads up. The CCP is probably helping bankroll this film like they are many for woke\/headed for broke Hollywood. Maybe the Chinese public will make this film a winner for all its blond headed stars. I\u2019d love to see some of these studios just move to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John J. Dwyer (@JohnJDwyer1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnJDwyer1\/status\/1676344688142319616?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sounds trivial but it\u2019s not, they made the conscious decision to use the map that pleases the CCP!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill (@MorningJoefan1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorningJoefan1\/status\/1676598919877238785?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I guess Barbie is made in China\u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CDB1IzZcvm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/CDB1IzZcvm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1675925881062039558?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone understands China is a huge market for Hollywood\u2019s products, and aligning a product with a market is basic capitalism. But that isn\u2019t how Hollywood markets itself.<\/p>\n<p>Year after year, at increasingly tedious award ceremonies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/woke-oscars-suffer-another-year-brutal-ratings-third-lowest-ever-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans are lectured to<\/a> by Beverly Hills leftists who claim to be artists creating works to explore the human condition, when they\u2019re really on the whole just a bunch of grifting smut-peddlers, whose latest achievement is prostituting a classic of Americana to suit the whims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-makes-disturbing-excuse-chinas-genocide-cnn-town-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genocidal tyrants<\/a> running the most dangerous global rival of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the innocent old days, disputes about Barbie generally involved the doll\u2019s anatomically unlikely (if not impossible) breast, waist and leg measurements.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/abs\/gender-differences-in-mathematics\/math-is-hard-barbie-1994-responses-of-threat-vs-challengemediated-arousal-to-stereotypes-alleging-intellectual-inferiority\/204AA5C6127CD0C2F474C732432E052B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cmath is hard\u201d controversy<\/a> in which a talking Barbie\u2019s statement echoing the experiences of young people everywhere caused such a storm that the doll had to be pulled from the market. (It supposedly reinforced stereotypes about women and mathematics. But men and women across the spectrum have probably had the same thought.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, Barbie has gone from tired arguments over alleged sexism, stereotyping and objectifying women and girls, to spreading totalitarian propaganda in the eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, though, it looks like the Chinese propaganda might be the least tedious thing about it. Check out the official trailer below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Regardless, it never had to happen. Including the dashes on the map was so unnecessary, so inane, that it could only have happened if someone in the movie\u2019s production staff decided to preemptively start licking Beijing\u2019s boots \u2014 or someone in the CCP had snapped his fingers to demand obeisance from those brave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/james-woods-gives-eyebrow-raising-answer-asked-true-extent-evil-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood artists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s arrogance has caused issues like this before. The hugely grossing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-gun-maverick-first-film-ever-top-memorial-labor-day-weekend-box-office-patriotism-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top Gun: Maverick<\/a>\u201d enraged the Communists by including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-gun-maverick-stands-china-fires-warning-shot-ccp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flash of a scene<\/a> that showed Taiwan depicted on the lead character\u2019s jacket (there was at least some internal logic to that).<\/p>\n<p>And then there was \u201cFirst Man,\u201d the 2018 vehicle starring Ryan Gosling (who plays Ken to Margot Robbie\u2019s Barbie in \u201cBarbie\u201d). The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fisher-stevens-regrets-playing-an-indian-man-in-short-circuit\/\" title=\"Fisher Stevens Regrets Playing An Indian Man In \u2018Short Circuit\u2019\">filmmakers decided<\/a> that a crowning scene of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon to plant an American flag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/buzz-aldrin-blasts-hollywood-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could do without<\/a> an \u2026 American flag. Why hurt Chinese sensitivities?<\/p>\n<p>But taking a bubble-gum movie like \u201cBarbie\u201d and pushing it straight into the middle of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/detail-on-map-in-barbie-movie-kowtows-to-chinese-communists-infuriates-other-asian-nations\/\" title=\"Map in 'Barbie' Movie Angers Asian Nations\">conflict involving multiple countries requires<\/a> the kind of morally blind obtuseness that only a leftist could love.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie will never be the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/detail-map-barbie-movie-kowtows-chinese-communists-infuriates-asian-nations\/\">Detail on Map in &#8216;Barbie&#8217; Movie Kowtows to Chinese Communists, Infuriates Other Asian Nations<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie, you&#8217;ve made great strides. Americans anticipated controversy surrounding a film about the iconic Mattel doll, following the gender debates that have surrounded her for over 60 years. 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