The phrase "proxy state" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a country or entity that is controlled or heavily influenced by another country. Example: "North Korea is often considered a proxy state of China, as it relies heavily on China for economic support and political guidance."
* America's extraordinary rendition programme involves the further element of torture, usually by a third-party proxy state.
Lebanon has long been a proxy state for battles between adversaries in the Middle East, and Iran's attempts to build influence there are not new.
That would certainly be a major headache for the Obama administration; as in 1975, the collapse of a former American proxy state and the victory of America's bitter enemies would project an image of American weakness in both international and domestic politics.How much blood and treasure should America devote to preventing this from happening?
Indeed, why not Chechnya, where the Russians killed some 30,000 inhabitants of the capital Grozny, most of them Muslims and where Moscow continues to run a proxy state with conditions often worse than those in Gaza.
The Jin hoped that a proxy state would be capable of administering northern China and collecting the annual indemnity without requiring Jurchen interventions to quell anti-Jin uprisings.
Russia could make its proxy states accept a fudged deal on independence by turning off the energy tap.
Yet Lance Armstrong, the seven-time winner of the Tour de France, did not attend a single meeting of his fellow Morgans directors last year, the proxy states.
The proxy states that at the beginning of negotiations, Mars apparently proposed to keep the Wrigley business intact and headquartered in Chicago.
Israel is trying to draw in Egypt and Jordan to serve as proxy states and, in effect, as guardians for the Palestinians.
In 1994, the company's proxy stated "Mr. Dell does not participate in Dell's long-term incentive program because of his significant stock ownership".
The totals underestimate the actual cost of the recreational travel because they do not included any portion of the fixed costs of owning and maintaining the planes, the proxy states.
