puppet state

He also briefly served as propaganda chief for the puppet state.

Japan set up its puppet state of Manchukuo six months later.

It is used to denigrate the government of the alleged puppet state.

The republic was regarded by some as a Poland-dependent puppet state.

Either of the two could serve as rulers of a puppet state.

It means the bike was produced by the puppet state of Manchukuo.

This has led to some experts stating that it runs as an effective puppet state of Turkey.

A puppet state is a country that is officially independent, but not in practice.

The former puppet state was returned to China.

Today, more common terms are puppet state, protectorate or associated state.

Some of these were provided to Germany's Croatian puppet state.

Thus effectively it was little more than a puppet state of the Russian Empire.

It was a puppet state created by France.

It sees the Japanese government as an American puppet state and demands "complete independence".

Some historians consider it to have been an puppet state of the Ottoman Empire.

Other such terms include puppet state and neo-colony.

However, the rebel Republic was a puppet state and was very short lived (discussed below).

Croatia was created as an autonomous puppet state.

In unusually frank language, he called Lebanon a "puppet state" controlled by Syria.

He'd see what concessions he could wring out of America and the Taiwanese puppet state.

A puppet state was created in Slovakia.

The puppet state was formally accepted into the Soviet Union on 6 August.

Such outside power can be exercised by a foreign government, in which case the puppet ruler's domain is called a puppet state.