Sometimes a Cartoon Map is Just a Cartoon Map
GOP declares war on ... Barbie
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/gop-declares-war-on-barbie-00105154
Warner Bros. said there were no geopolitics intended in “Barbie.”
“While 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 PRC’s unlawful territorial claims illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please CCP censors,”...
“The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing,” a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group said. “The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement.”