{"id":30740,"date":"2023-07-11T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/07\/11\/is-barbie-a-chinese-communist-sympathizer-gop-lawmakers-weigh-in\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:43:55","slug":"is-barbie-a-chinese-communist-sympathizer-gop-lawmakers-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2023\/07\/11\/is-barbie-a-chinese-communist-sympathizer-gop-lawmakers-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Barbie a Chinese communist sympathizer? 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The film\u2019s drawing drew attention to such claims, angering Republican lawmakers just a couple weeks ahead of the movie\u2019s July 21 theatrical release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile it may just be a Barbie map in a Barbie world, the fact that a cartoonish, crayon-scribbled map seems to go out of its way to depict the [Peoples Republic of China]\u2019s unlawful territorial claims illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please CCP censors,\u201d Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/06\/16\/school-researching-hypersonic-weapons-closes-china-linked-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Gallagher<\/a>, R-Wisc., who chairs the House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/07\/07\/mike-gallagher-criticizes-barbie-movie-for-its-cartoon-map-of-china\/70389277007\/\" target=\"_blank\">told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Barbie movie child-like map drawing, seen in the background here, has caused an uproar among some politicians who claim the map supports China&#39;s South China Sea territorial claims <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jR7mpQbIgt\">pic.twitter.com\/jR7mpQbIgt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Observation Post (@militarytimesop) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/militarytimesop\/status\/1678834777170890759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many countries bordering the South China Sea, including Malaysia and the Philippines, have long-disputed the claims made by Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/03\/15\/activists-pentagon-spar-over-sharing-evidence-of-russian-war-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">the international court in the Hague, Netherlands, also rejected China\u2019s claims<\/a> to the region, where nearly one-third of global goods transit en route to ports around the globe, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/resrep22586.30?seq=4\" target=\"_blank\">report on U.S.-China economic cooperation<\/a>. The U.S. Navy has also routinely sailed through the region as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/11\/29\/navy-responds-to-chinese-criticism-of-south-china-sea-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">freedom of navigation operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The territorial depiction in Barbie, meanwhile, so angered Vietnam, which claims part of the South China Sea, that the film was banned in the country, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/barbie-map-meaning-why-banned-1235662437\/\" target=\"_blank\">report by <i>Variety<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Warner Bros. Film Group, however, said viewers have been reading too much into the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing,\u201d the spokesperson told <i>Variety<\/i>. \u201cThe doodles depict Barbie\u2019s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the \u2018real world.\u2019 It was not intended to make any type of statement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even if Barbie is just a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, that hasn\u2019t stopped some politicians from decrying the dire implications a movie about plastic dolls could have when it comes to the near-peer threat out of Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHollywood &amp; the Left are more concerned with selling films in Communist China than standing up to the regime\u2019s human rights abuses,\u201d Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/01\/25\/troops-booted-over-covid-vaccines-would-get-jobs-back-under-gop-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marsha Blackburn<\/a>, R-Tenn., <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1676968203082399746\" target=\"_blank\">said in a tweet<\/a>. \u201cThe \u2018Barbie\u2019 movie\u2019s depiction of a map endorsing Beijing\u2019s claims to the South China Sea is legally [and] morally wrong and must be taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/03\/15\/senator-demands-meeting-with-defense-leaders-over-their-response-to-criticism-of-women-in-the-ranks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz<\/a>, R-Texas, has accused Hollywood of appeasing the Chinese government to ensure the approval of film distribution in the populous country. Other organizations like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2019\/06\/28\/if-you-want-to-be-inspired-check-out-the-warrior-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Basketball Association<\/a> have also been slammed by critics for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/10\/nba-isnt-the-only-company-appease-china-google-apple-bilzzard\" target=\"_blank\">catering to the Chinese government<\/a> in order to protect growing business interests in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChina wants to control what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think, and they leverage their massive film markets to coerce American companies into pushing CCP propaganda \u2014 just like the way the Barbie film seems to have done with the map,\u201d a spokesperson for Cruz told Military Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie on plastic dolls, not nuclear weapons, has caused political uproar among some conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":107261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-observation-post","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":38,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[38,31,9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3308],"class_list":["post-30740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-home","category-federal-oversight"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"5WC2AFLNZRCURK3TZPRESIWEL4","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-military\/2023\/07\/11\/is-barbie-a-chinese-communist-sympathizer-gop-lawmakers-weigh-in\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"observation-post","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Barbie a Chinese communist sympathizer? 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