Beijing has been accused of “two-faced diplomacy” after pledging greater ... only for three Chinese coastguard vessels to enter waters around Japanese-controlled islands the next day, pursuing ...

This includes a joint naval exercise conducted by the US, Japan, and France in the Philippine ... waters without prior notice ...

For the Standard, the deployment brought to mind "gunboat diplomacy," a pillar of 19th and early 20th-century foreign policy in which force or the threat thereof was used to advance U.S. interests ...