In recent years, China’s box office has been dominated by homegrown movies often with a nationalist lean, such as patriotic war epics. But this weekend, a different type of film captured national ...

A movie about plastic dolls, not nuclear weapons, has caused political uproar among some conservatives over its depiction of a dashed line off the coast of a child-like drawing of Asia — markings that ...

Come on Barbie, let’s go Communist Party? Texas Senator Ted Cruz unleashed boxed-up anger at the upcoming “Barbie” movie for including what his office called Chinese communist propaganda in the ...

Mattel is honoring Chinese-American actor Anna May Wong with a new Barbie doll as part of the Barbie Inspiring Women series, which recognizes iconic women in history. Wong is considered the first ...

The Barbie movie has drawn criticism for its supposed appeasement of Chinese claims to the South China Sea. (Getty via Canva) A movie about plastic dolls, not nuclear weapons, has caused political ...