‘Barbie’ Movie Drawn Into Controversy Over Contested Region

Geopolitics may be the last thing on the minds of audiences who will be lining up for the Barbie movie in 2023. But the pastel-drenched blockbuster based on a children’s doll seems to have waded into an international controversy about one of the globe's most heavily contested regions, leading it to be banned in Vietnam and censored in the Philippines. Written by Alex Gendler and narrated by Salem Solomon