Definition of client state
: a country that is economically, politically, or militarily dependent on another country
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Long-term, Moscow wants a reliable client state in the Middle East.
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Cuba was a client state of the Soviet Union and was under diplomatic and economic embargo by the United States for decades.
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When the Soviets and Americans stopped funding client states, many belligerents sought other revenue streams, for example smuggling diamonds out of west African war-zones, says Sebastian von Einsiedel of the University of the UN in Tokyo.
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The current standoff over North Korea’s nuclear provocations bears a more-than-passing resemblance to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the last time a nuclear-armed superpower client state and the U.S. faced off.
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The danger of Qatar evolving into a full-fledged Iranian client state is vastly overblown; this is not something that the Al-Thani family would find palatable.
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Later, as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson are forced to deploy troops in South Vietnam to protect their client state from a communist takeover, the filmmakers reveal both men’s secret doubts.
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Russia may decide to help its client state Syria more as the result of this airstrike, frustrating further U.S. action.
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1803
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: a country that depends on another country for military, economic, or political support
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