Just Where Exactly Did China Get the South China Sea Nine-Dash Line From?

On July 18, China’s naval chief Wu Shengli told the visiting U.S. chief of naval operations that Beijing would not halt its ...
USNI

Opinion: The Expanding Assault on China’s South China Sea Claims

China’s ambiguous claim to the South China Sea, approximately demarcated by a series of hash marks known as the “nine-dashed line,” faced objections from an expanding number of parties over the past ...
JD Supra

Design Patent Practice UPDATE – Use Caution in Con’s

In prosecuting design patent applications, it is common practice to use dashed lines to depict a feature of the design that is illustrated for context or environment, but is not considered to be part ...
UPI

Many underestimate white dashed lines

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- People underestimate the length of the white dashed lines painted down the middle of a road indicating that many drive too fast, a U. S. researcher said. Study leader ...
The Diplomat

The Nine-Dashed Line Isn’t China’s Monroe Doctrine

During his keynote address Tuesday in Newport, international man of mystery Robert Kaplan recounted a tale that’s all too common in dealings between Americans and Chinese. A PLA senior colonel, ...
The Diplomat

China’s “Nine-Dash Line” is Dangerous

As noted last week, the U.S. has lodged its objection to China’s “nine-dash-line” claim to the South China Sea. It is right to do so for two reasons. First, in contrast to what China claims, the U.S.