Irregular Royal Navy deployments to the Far East could not ... and it won’t stop. Quiet diplomacy won’t deter Beijing from more dangerous behaviour but will embolden it to repeat its actions.

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More than a century later, the Chinese navy has been executing its own form of gunboat diplomacy by circumnavigating Australia ... A flight of steps, the Fleet Steps, was specially built in the Royal ...

The Pentagon wants a U.S. Navy destroyer to help shake things ... For the Standard, the deployment brought to mind "gunboat diplomacy," a pillar of 19th and early 20th-century foreign policy ...

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