Nine Dashes, Illiberal Trade Interests, TPP, and Vietnam Bhala, Raj author text articles 2017 eng born digital pp. 67-83 Brown Journal of World Affairs 1080-0786 23 no. 2 no. 67 83 The article discusses joining of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) by the U.S. with Vietnam. Topics include trade deal causing job and income loss in the U.S. as by China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), future growth in employment and wages staked at texture and apparel (T&A) sector and The Nine Dash Line, demarcation drawn by the Philippine authorities in the wake of the Japanese defeat in the Second World War. 10.26300/sxcz-xs59