This paper profiles subnational diplomacy between the UK and China, with a focus on the direct engagement of UK local authorities with Chinese diplomats and local governments. It draws on extensive ...

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 ...

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Any diplomacy with Moscow must be backed up by firepower, sanctions, and pressure." Meanwhile, American negotiators said they hope to achieve “real progress” at the talks in Saudi Arabia ...

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But gunboat diplomacy really only works if the nation that's being coerced ... We have to be capable of strong, independent action. Well, I wrote a book in 2023 that recommended what I called an ...

Prince William's arrival in Estonia felt like the latest example of the Royal Family being right on the frontline of high-stakes diplomatic discussions. There's been no attempt by the UK ...

So it could be construed as gunboat diplomacy in the sense that there are bodies of water around the world where commercial ships expect to see military forces and the U.S. Navy knows and values the ...

Russia hasn’t changed its goals since the invasion The Trump administration is about to get a demonstration of Kremlin root-canal diplomacy.By agreeing in principle to the 30-day ceasefire but ...