English Explanatory Dictionary

Davis Line

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A boundary line, the centreline, the median line, in the middle of the Taiwan Strait, separating the (air) defence (control) zone of China from that of Taiwan.

Word forms

Davis Line the Davis Line

Etymology

1950s, named after Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. a United States Air Force (USAF) general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen who was commander of Air Task Force 13 (Provisional), Taipei, Taiwan (ROC).

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