checkbook diplomacy

But part of Japan's unwritten test has been to show that its contributions go beyond "checkbook diplomacy."

They should not be described as 'checkbook diplomacy'.

Japanese and Saudi diplomats strongly denied engaging in such "checkbook diplomacy."

This later became known as checkbook diplomacy.

Your 'checkbook diplomacy,' like our 'dollar diplomacy' of an earlier era, is clearly too narrow."

But diplomats and foreign policy experts say that heyday as a donor and practitioner of checkbook diplomacy is past.

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For 50 years Japanese leaders have been trained never to talk about "strategic interests" or even national ideals; no wonder they grew fond of checkbook diplomacy.

Only a very few small and inconsequential UN member states have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, bought checkbook diplomacy.

Checkbook diplomacy, or chequebook diplomacy, is used to describe international policy openly using economic aid and investment between countries to carry diplomatic favor.

Among the major catalysts were a shift in Japan's national security objectives, and widespread criticism of its "checkbook diplomacy" policy during the first Gulf War.

Secretary of State Baker recently made headlines in Tokyo by declaring that Japan owed the new international order more than just "checkbook diplomacy."

When Secretary of State Baker visited Tokyo last year, he referred scathingly to Japan's "checkbook diplomacy."

It is a combination of gunboat diplomacy and checkbook diplomacy that undermines other kinds of diplomacy."

Last fall, Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d criticized Japan in a speech here for failing to go beyond "checkbook diplomacy."

China has practiced such checkbook diplomacy before, notably during the prolonged fight to win American support for its entry into the World Trade Organization in the late 1990's.

While Tokyo's reluctance to get involved in the Persian Gulf war drew accusations of checkbook diplomacy, Mr. Kimura's opinion was still the prevailing one.

China maintained relations with Cape Verde throughout from 1970s to mid-1990s mainly to prevent the Republic of China (Taiwan) from gaining Cape Verde's international recognition through checkbook diplomacy.

Taiwan has previously offered military exchanges and training as well as economic aid in return but has more recently had difficulty competing with China's economic incentives and in 2008 officially abandoned this "checkbook diplomacy".

Many Japanese were reluctant to have any involvement in the Persian Gulf war, and there was some criticism here that Mr. Kaifu practiced checkbook diplomacy in response to American demands, rather than display independence.

AS inadequate as mere checkbook diplomacy is, the Japan that is being written off today is increasingly unable even to play that game the way it once did because of its huge debt and pension woes.

Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d asked Japan to assume a more active role in protecting democracy and advocating free trade instead of relying on "checkbook diplomacy" to protect its interests or waiting for foreign pressure to force action.

Mr. Miyazawa and other leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are pushing the measure as a response to criticism in the United States and elsewhere that it has engaged in "checkbook diplomacy" without sending personnel to troublespots.

When Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d visited Japan in the fall, however, he made headlines when he said Japan must abandon its practice of "checkbook diplomacy" and wade more into the thick of the world's problems.

And during the last two decades, when it was taking in as much as $60 million a day in oil revenue, it pursued a sort of checkbook diplomacy that clashes strikingly with prevalent images of Africa as a helpless beggar continent.