A beggar as vassal?

Take me on as vassal!

Niwa's vassal, Tobei from Nakanogo rests. Arrange tables!

A non elected government that capitulated to Hitler offered a parochial, vassal like future.

They see a China seeking to re establish itself as The Middle Kingdom, with its neighbors reduced to vassal and tributary states.

I, Flavia, do become thy vassal swearing to serve thee in truth with life and limb until death findeth me so help me God.

An overlord was a person from whom a landholding or a manor was held by a mesne lord or vassal under various forms of feudal land tenure.

From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a personal union of two vassal principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full fledged independent kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy.

He had probably been with the Great Heathen Army, descended on the continent, and became a vassal of the emperor Charles the Fat, controlling most of Frisia between 882 and 885.

It was an arrangement that suited everyone the Japanese became rich, the Americans had a compliant anti communist vassal state, and other Asians, even Communist China, preferred Pax Americana to a revival of Japanese military clout.

But, if current trends persist, Russia east of the Urals, and later the entire country, will become an appendage of China a warehouse of resources, and then an economic and political vassal. No aggressive or unfriendly effort by China will be needed

For example, after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror added King of England to his titles, becoming both the vassal to (as Duke of Normandy) and the equal of (as king of England) the king of France, creating recurring tensions.

Asseb, a port near the southern entrance of the Red Sea, was bought by in March 1870 from the local Afar sultan, vassal to the Ethiopian Emperor, by an Italian company, which by 1890 led to the Italian colony of Eritrea being established.

But, if current trends persist, Russia east of the Urals, and later the entire country, will become an appendage of China a warehouse of resources, and then an economic and political vassal. No aggressive or unfriendly effort by China will be needed Russia will be subdued by default.