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 ...

SHANGHAI, March 30. -- The Japanese Consul General having verified the completion of the disarmament of the Russian gunboat Mandjur, the Japanese cruiser will leave Shanghai to-morrow. View Full ...