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Expansion-minded Chinese nationalists, coupled with China’s increasing contempt for Russian military weakness, are quite capable of harnessing China’s resentments over past defeats to turn on their diminished client state to the north.
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Craig Hooper, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
This order is backed by a U.S.-led network of alliances, institutions, geopolitical bargains, client states, and democratic partnerships.
—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014
His ties with the Nigerian government were obvious, which meant so, too, were his secondary ties with the Chinese government, who through economic subsidies and military alliances had turned Nigeria into a partner, if not a client state.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
By that time, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson was several years into a strategy of building bridges to the Soviet Union’s Eastern European client states through economic and cultural programs intending to sever Soviet influence.
—Van Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2015
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Craig Hooper, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
This order is backed by a U.S.-led network of alliances, institutions, geopolitical bargains, client states, and democratic partnerships.
—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014
His ties with the Nigerian government were obvious, which meant so, too, were his secondary ties with the Chinese government, who through economic subsidies and military alliances had turned Nigeria into a partner, if not a client state.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
By that time, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson was several years into a strategy of building bridges to the Soviet Union’s Eastern European client states through economic and cultural programs intending to sever Soviet influence.
—Van Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2015
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“Client state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/client%20state. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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