Warner Bros studio on Thursday stated a map in its upcoming “Barbie” film of the South China Sea is a “child-like” drawing with no meant significance, days after Vietnam stated it could ban the movie over the map.

Vietnam balked at a scene of the map that reveals China’s unilaterally claimed territory within the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday. It determined to ban home distribution of the extremely anticipated movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Warner Bros believed the map was innocent.

“The map in Barbie Land is a whimsical, child-like crayon drawing,” the studio said in a statement. “The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the true world. It was not meant to make any sort of assertion.” “Barbie” was originally slated to open in Vietnam on July 21, the same date as in the United States, according to state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper.

Vietnamese authorities objected to a scene showing a map that includes the so-called nine-dash line, the newspaper said. The U-shaped line is used on Chinese maps to illustrate China’s claims over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swaths of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions. “We don’t grant license for the American film ‘Barbie’ to launch in Vietnam as a result of it incorporates the offending picture of the nine-dash line,” the newspaper reported, citing Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films.

“Barbie” is the newest film to be banned in Vietnam for depicting China’s nine-dash line, which was repudiated in a global arbitration ruling by a court docket in The Hague in 2016. China refuses to acknowledge the ruling. This week, Vietnam additionally opened an investigation of the web site of Ok-pop group Blackpink’s tour organiser, forward of the group’s live performance in Hanoi, over criticism from followers that it reveals a map of the South China Sea with disputed boundaries.

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