What different tactics did the United States use to protect its economic and strategic interests in East Asia versus those used in the Caribbean at the turn of the century?
What will be an ideal response?
In East Asia, particularly in the Philippines, the U.S. military intervened directly, using persuasion and coercion to defeat Filipino rebels in order to gain the Philippines as a colony. In the Caribbean, the United States used less forceful tactics, taking many Caribbean nations as protectorates. For example, the United States provided financial, political, and naval support for Panama's revolt against Colombia in order to obtain perpetual control over a strip of land that contained the Panama Canal in exchange for an annual "rent" payment to Panama.
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