Client state

Client state is a word used to describe a state that has to follow a more powerful state in international politics. The word is not specific compared with the other words which have similar meanings: satellite state, associated state, puppet state, neo-colony, protectorate, vassal state and tributary state. The greater state may be said to exercise hegemony over the lesser one.

Client State Media

Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire in 1590
First French Empire and French satellite states in 1812
Map of the Indian Empire in 1909. The princely states are in yellow.
The leaders of some of the SEATO nations hosted by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on 24 October 1966
Location of Manchukuo (red) within Imperial Japan's sphere of influence in 1939

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