checkbook diplomacy

noun

A foreign policy which openly uses foreign aid and investment between countries to curry diplomatic favor.

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Meanings

nouncheckbook diplomacy (countable and uncountable, plural checkbook diplomacies)

plural checkbook diplomacies · alternative chequebook diplomacy

  1. countableuncountableA foreign policy which openly uses foreign aid and investment between countries to curry diplomatic favor.

    Japan's initial contribution to Kabul resembled “checkbook diplomacy plus” with a pledge of ODA plus the dispatch of the Maritime SDF to the Indian Ocean. These steps appeared sufficient.

    2014, Dennis T. Yasutomo, Japan's Civil-Military Diplomacy: The Banks of the Rubicon, Routledge, →ISBN
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