But it's the first time that China has agreed to condemn the behavior of its client regime in Burma.
There'll be ample opportunity for US weaponry to serve two of its intrinsic purposes - supporting client regimes, and keeping them loyal.
He wants to leave without seeming to abandon a vulnerable client regime.
There was no longer a client regime to protect.
Of the industrialized nations, France alone still seems to have any taste for such interventions - typically to prop up client regimes or protect its own citizens.
The Philippines were occupied by Japanese forces from late 1941 to 1944 who established a client regime there during their military occupation.
The states soon became client regimes of the Company: both were forced to disband their military.
They felt Diệm's policies were making their client regime in South Vietnam politically unsustainable.
A conservative tribal rebellion followed, and in 1979 Soviet troops poured in to save a Marxist client regime.
Vietnam's client regime in Cambodia is established, but not quite secure.