gunboat diplomacyPPPTHREATENthe practice of threatening to use force against another country to make them agree to your demands 炮舰外交〔指用武力威胁使另一国家屈从的做法〕gunboat diplomacy• It also sounds like the kind of moral purpose with which Palmerston infused his gunboat diplomacy.
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