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gunboat diplomacy. Not until 1927 is there a printed refer- ence to gunboat diplomacy, which might translate as “getting one’s way by force,” but the expression may date back to 1841, when American ships exacted trade concessions from the Chi- nese by sending gunboats to Canton, after the British had done the same in the First Opium War. Gunboat itself dates back to 1793. The expression has, however, long been associated with President Theodore Roosevelt’s Latin American policy. |