Editing Semi-colony (section)

==Forms of dependence and domination==
The dependence or domination of a semi-colony could take different forms:
*'''economic''' - foreign control over the supply of capital, technology and/or essential imported goods; and foreign control over strategic assets, industrial sectors and/or foreign trade.
*'''political''' - legal agreements and contracts defining government policy, or the direct intervention by the imperialist country in the political affairs of the semi-colony, to secure [[Client state|client-regimes]].
*'''military''' - the presence or control exercised by foreign troops, or foreign surveillance.  
*'''cultural/ideological''' - the imposition of a foreign culture or foreign religion on the local population through the media, education and foreign consumer products. 
*'''technological''' - the dependence on foreign technology, or the technological domination by a foreign country.
*'''demographic''' - the immigration into the semi-colony of large numbers of settlers from other countries, which dominate the indigenous population of the semi-colony; the expulsion or killing of indigenous people; and/or the imposition of controls over inward and outward migration.