Sentence examples for a buffer state from inspiring English sources

Myanmar is a buffer state between India and China; both have major economic interests there and fear turmoil.

At the same time, the Chinese do not want North Korea, which China sees as a buffer state, to collapse.

"Maybe if we hadn't been a buffer state we'd have escaped this security mind-set," he concluded.

Laos has since reverted to its role as a buffer state between Communist Vietnam and China and the surging capitalist economies of Southeast Asia.

Were they a buffer state aimed at slowing conflict, or were they allies of the Thebans?" asked Wegner, referring to the southern kingdom.

Roman policy seems to have been to maintain Nabataea as a buffer state against the desert tribes.

What was left of the Commonwealth was merely a small buffer state with a puppet king, and Russian garrisons keeping an eye on the reduced Polish army.

To protect its commercial interests, Brazil threatened to intervene in a civil war in Uruguay, a small buffer state between it and Argentina.

But it benefits from having a Communist buffer state, and fears the consequences of North Korea's collapse not least a stampede of refugees.

But it benefits from having a Communist buffer state, and fears the consequences of North Korea's collapse — not least a stampede of refugees.

"The west should seek to make Ukraine a neutral buffer state between Russia and Nato.