Toy Trouble: Vietnam Pulls Dolls Over South China Sea Map

Woman holding a Baby Three doll, with a marking on its cheek that has been claimed to resemble China's so-called nine-dash line in disputed South China Sea, at her home in Hanoi. Nhac NGUYEN / AFP

By Lam Nguyen

Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children’s dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling Beijing’s claims in the flashpoint waterway.

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