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Recent Examples of client state
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for client state
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There's only one week left to file a claim in the Cash App class-action settlement.Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
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Price’s notice to the sheriff on Friday comes nearly three years to the day after Monk, 45, was declared dead after being found face-down in his cell next to a puddle of urine and uneaten food, according to a lawsuit filed by his family that resulted in a $7 million settlement with the county.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2024
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Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
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The Great Wall runs from the Korean Peninsula all the way past Beijing and into the northwestern Gansu province.Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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This east-central province borders the United States and the Great Lakes and is the perfect place for a November weekend getaway, road trip, or Christmas market adventure.Miriam Porter, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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In essence, the Fed has satisfied its dual mandate of keeping inflation and unemployment low.Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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There is no federal mandate on how each state collects its ballots either, so each member of the Electoral College votes, counts and submits its choice slightly differently.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Risks highlighted in the filing include dependency on the success of key drug candidates, potential delays in clinical trials, and reliance on third-party manufacturers.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Guillory's switch to the GOP was driven by his conviction that Democrats have failed, particularly in the Black community, by fostering government dependency instead of empowerment.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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And 56% are worried that the 2024 election could be the end of democracy in the United States.Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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There are fundamental values on the line, even beyond democracy — women’s rights, civil rights, the safety of immigrants.Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Over four decades later, new soil samples taken from the same regions still indicated a better fungi and bacteria presence than the areas that did not host gophers.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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With ongoing geopolitical tensions and the conflict in Ukraine fueling these detentions, the future for those arrested on Russian soil appears increasingly uncertain.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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His thirty-two-year hard-line dictatorship witnessed political assassinations and the violent suppression of human rights by his army.Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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The peace plan tried to secure Arab recognition of Israel’s 1967 conquests, in exchange for more American aid and arms sales to the brutal Egyptian, Saudi and Emirati dictatorships.Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Client state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/client%20state. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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