Sentences with phrase «gunboat diplomacy»

Australia threatened a bit of gunboat diplomacy, announcing that it would dispatch a patrol boat (the guns would have been removed, actually) and aircraft to shadow the Japanese whalers.

Lurking near the horizon is a massive military boat, alluding to «gunboat diplomacy» that the U.S. has often employed in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean.

The admiral identified with the phrase «gunboat diplomacy» is hardly the right person to stand for Richie, tireless interpreter, apologist and connoisseur of all things Japanese.)

The West African body has been engaging in «gunboat diplomacy» - putting on a show of force to make Yahya Jammeh realise he has to step aside or be forced out.

Today's gunboat diplomacy gravely threatens the integrity of these negotiations.»

It's gunboat diplomacy with no gunboats.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

Alexis Tsipras was on course on Monday night to sway radical - leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue of a sovereign nation since the second world war, after the Greek prime minister accepted a third bailout programme that one analyst said came after a weekend of «gunboat diplomacy».

Of course, Ross's sabre rattling could be the precursor to some gunboat diplomacy (although the White House claims that President Trump was just joking about sending in U.S. troops in his call with the Mexican President).

Conversely, if gunboat diplomacy is an option, you can use threats to become the monopoly purchaser of a country's exports and force them to trade at an unfavourable price.

The U.S. and Mexico already have relatively free trade, so absent gunboat diplomacy to force Mexicans to buy more U.S. exports, all the U.S. can really do is restrict the amount of imports from Mexico by erecting new trade barriers.

Perhaps trade and warfare were equivalent back in the days of gunboat diplomacy (a favoured U.S. strategy in Asia in bygone days), but absent a willingness to engage in armed confrontation, today trade and warfare are fundamentally different.

Not exact matches

It also accused Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, of «gunboat» diplomacy in dealing with councils.