chequebook diplomacy

A form of checkbook diplomacy — A foreign policy which openly uses foreign aid and investment between countries to curry diplomatic favor.

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Meanings

nounchequebook diplomacy (countable and uncountable, plural chequebook diplomacies)

plural chequebook diplomacies

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of checkbook diplomacy.

    For decades, German governments pursued what came to be known as “chequebook diplomacy” – the belief that our cash rather than our soldiers should help resolve conflicts.

    [2023 July 6, Annalena Baerbock, “Russia’s war on Ukraine has forced us in Germany to think differently about our role in the world”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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