The nine-dash line marks a controversial and contested Chinese claim in the South China Sea.
The new"Barbie" film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is set for imminent release. But according to Vietnam's state-run, the film's release has been barred. The head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films, said:
Those disputes were over land, but more recently the focus has turned to claims over the continental shelf and the economic zones . As depicted in various official and unofficial Chinese maps, the line extends off the coast of China's Hainan Island, and runs close to the coast of Vietnam, deep into the South China Sea, enclosing the Spratly Islands.
The line has long been the subject of speculation as to what exactly it purports to encompass. Is it a Chinese territorial claim? Is it a Chinese claim to a maritime space? Does it extend to sovereignty over the whole area or just to resources?
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