MANILA, Philippines---First inscribed on a map in 1948, the nine-dash line assertion of China, which has been declared to have no legal basis, has seeped into movies which security and defense experts are taking seriously and viewing with concern. This month, Warner Bros' film "Barbie" was banned in Vietnam for depicting the fictional nine-dash line, which is being used by China on its maps to illustrate its ownership claim over nearly the entire South China Sea (SCS). READ: Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map Because of this, the Philippines, through the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), is already reviewing whether to allow the ...Keep on reading: China’s nine-dash line: A dangerous fiction even in the movies