gunboat diplomacy in English
noun
1
foreign policy that is supported by the use or threat of military force.
Both Indonesia and Malaysia also saw it as a means to protect themselves from gunboat diplomacy and foreign intervention in the affairs of their fledgling nations.
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1. Oppenheimer rejected the idea of nuclear gunboat diplomacy.
2. Gunboat diplomacy was typically conducted by cruisers or smaller warships.
3. What they could not take by political intrigue they took by 'gunboat diplomacy' .
4. Venezuela's suspension of debt payments in 1901 led to gunboat diplomacy of the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903.