“Texas’s own firebrand, Senator Ted Cruz, stirs the storm around the “Barbie” movie, fingering it as a vehicle for Chinese propaganda. According to Cruz, the film craftily veils a pro-China representation of disputed South China Sea territories. This animated construct, sugar-coated with childhood innocence, seems an unlikely battle field. Yet, the question arises: Do the pigtails of imagination hide a serpent of indoctrination? With Hollywood capitulating to this subtle infiltration, should we merely sit, transfixed spectators to a show of unparalleled intrusion?”