Editing Client state (section)

===United States===
[[File:CongressBuilding SEATO.jpg|thumb|right|The leaders of some of the [[Southeast Asia Treaty Organization|SEATO]] nations hosted by Philippine President [[Ferdinand Marcos]] on 24 October 1966]]
The term has also been applied to states which are extremely economically dependent on a more powerful nation. The three Pacific Ocean countries associated with the United States under the [[Compact of Free Association]] (the [[Federated States of Micronesia]], the [[Marshall Islands]], and [[Palau]]) have been called client states.<ref>{{cite book |title=Pacific Futures: Past and Present |date=2018 |editor1=Warwick Anderson |editor2=Miranda Johnson |editor3=Barbara Brookes |first=David L. |last=Hanlon |chapter=A Different Historiography for "A Handful of Chickpeas Flung Over the Sea": Approaching the Federated States of Micronesia's Deeper Past|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |isbn=978-0-8248-7742-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |journal=Mundi |last=Chen |first=Millie |title=The Marshall Islands and U.S. Imperial Relations |url=https://tuljournals.temple.edu/index.php/mundi/article/view/374 |publisher=Temple University |date=2020 |volume=1 |number=1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rampell |first1=Ed |title=George H.W. Bush: Dirty Tricks and Regime Change in Nuclear-Free Palau |url=https://islandtimes.org/george-bush-dirty-tricks-palau/ |access-date=15 April 2023 |work=Island Times |date=8 January 2019}}</ref>

* {{flagcountry|Republic of China (1912–1949)}} (1945–1949) → {{Flag|Taiwan}} (1949–1979)
* {{flag|Khmer Republic}} (1970–1975)
* {{flag|Philippines|1936}} ([[History of the Philippines (1965–1986)|1965–1986]])
* {{flag|South Korea}} (1948–1953)
* {{flag|South Vietnam}} (1954–1975)
* {{flag|Thailand}} (1949–1976)