What Is Gunboat Diplomacy

Is Gunboat Diplomacy negatively or positively impacting people today, and overtime?

Gunboat diplomacy is where a country uses their naval power to aid them in their foreign negotiations. There are two options that are given by a country, to accept the policy or term that a country would put forward, and to deny the policy or term that a country would put forward; and be dealt with by the naval forces outside the country that denied the policy. Gunboat diplomacy was mainly used in the 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, and even today (21st century). Today, there is a different type of gunboat diplomacy (20th-21st century) which is economic hit-men. Economic hitmen are men who are hired by governments to persuade foreign countries
Gunboat diplomacy was mainly being used by the superpowers of the world, and countries in Europe in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. One notable example of this would be The First Opium War (1839-42). The First Opium War was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Qing Empire. The three countries were argueing the viewpoints on peacekeeping relations, trade. At the time, the world’s most successful company was the The British East India Company. The company auctioned opium and growed it on their plantations in India to exchange it for silver. The opium was then transported to the China coast and sold to Chinese middlemen. The reverse flow of silver and the increasing numbers of opium addicts alarmed Chinese officials, so in 1839, the Daoguang Emperor, rejected proposals to legalise and tax opium. Although not officially denying China's right to control imports of the drug, the British government did not allow this, and used its naval and gunnery power to cause a quick and clear defeat (use of gunboat
Two examples are in Canada with Costa Rica, and Russia with Ukraine. Around a century ago (from today) The Royal Bank of Canada loaned $200,000 to a Costa Rican dictator, Federico Tinoco. He took the money and fled the country, and the new government refused to repay the money. The new government said/justified that the Canadian bank knew that the dictator would likely run away and steal the money. In 1921, Canadian Gunboat Diplomacy Notes states the following: “in Costa Rica, [Canadian vessels] Aurora, Patriot and Patrician helped the Royal Bank of Canada satisfactorily settle an outstanding claim with the government of that country” (example of gunboat diplomacy today). On Feburary 2014, Russia invaded the Crimea peninsula, and peninsula in the southern part of Ukraine, and claimed the land for it’s own. Russia then established a naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Later in 2014, Russia started to support the separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine, and the civil war between Eastern Ukraine and the rest of Ukraine ended in large land areas being lost to the separatist rebels/Russia. Ukraine then resolved for a peace treaty with Eastern Ukraine (February, 2015), to avoid further conflict. Ukraine knew that if it kept fighting, Russia will send more troops and military equipment into Eastern Ukraine, and possibly Ukraine could have lost even more land to the