After six decades of gunboat diplomacy , any detente is to be welcomed .
经历了60载的炮舰外交后，两岸关系任何形式的缓和都是值得欢迎的。
For many germans , who oppose foreign military expeditions on any grounds , this smacked of gunboat diplomacy .
对于许多反对在诸多前线增加对外驻军的德国人来说，他的讲话有着炮舰外交的意味。
Even so , the obama administration has been an active practitioner of gunboat diplomacy , a term that refers to achieving foreign-policy objectives through vivid displays of naval might .
即使如此，奥巴马政府仍在积极实践炮舰政策通过海军武力的炫示达到外交上的目标。
China has not shied away from gunboat diplomacy in the past , and the harassment of the usns impeccable , for example , shows that a growing chinese naval presence in asia is not a stabilizing force .
Several asean nations dispute ownership of islands with china , and china 's preparedness to assert its claims with aggressive warnings and even a bit of gunboat diplomacy has worried smaller neighbours , notably vietnam and the philippines .
