But brinkmanship also relies on knowing when to pull back.
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But this exercise in brinkmanship has been left very late.
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He has tried "maximum pressure," Twitter threats, and war brinkmanship.
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The next few weeks will be an exercise in brinkmanship.
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"That has undermined North Korea's ability to play brinkmanship diplomacy."
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Does it set us up for this brinkmanship -- I'm sorry.
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He has an alarming tendency towards military provocation and brinkmanship.
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On the same day, he'll bring on fresh brinkmanship with Iran.
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In both 2011 and 2013 the brinkmanship concluded with a deal.
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We see a risk of economically damaging brinkmanship in the process.
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READ: Boats and brinkmanship up close in the South China Sea
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Uber and Lyft just lost an expensive game of political brinkmanship.
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They, more than anybody else, bear the cost of budget brinkmanship.
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Politicians seeking patronage appointments block progress with their brinkmanship and stratagems.
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Headlines - Boris Johnson accused of 'brinkmanship' by EU trade chief on.ft.
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It's time to end the damaging brinkmanship over the debt ceiling.
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It's possible Trump might learn the wrong lessons from his brinkmanship.
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This is a dangerous situation, as this brinkmanship can escalate quickly.
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"What's going on here is diplomatic brinkmanship of sorts," Panda tweeted.
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But if that brinkmanship had ended differently, the costs would've been tremendous.
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But his brinkmanship undermined earlier efforts and pushed Greece back into recession.
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The Interpreter Which country is ahead after almost two years of brinkmanship?
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NWS comes at a critical time in the history of nuclear brinkmanship.
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They see a risk of that kind of brinkmanship breaking out within weeks.
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Secretly, however, they were engaged in a far more dangerous game of brinkmanship.
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Brinkmanship between President Trump and North Korea raised alarms of possible nuclear war.
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More brinkmanship and frenzied alarm, all on Pyongyang's timetable, remain the most likely outcomes.
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The temptation to fire up voters using heated brinkmanship with Pakistan will be huge.
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For proponents of the nuclear deal, it was an unacceptably risky bit of brinkmanship.
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"Political brinkmanship in Washington is further heightening market uncertainty," said Westpac economist Elliot Clarke.
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But for these federal employees, the shutdown isn't just a matter of political brinkmanship.
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Here's what you need to know: • Nuclear brinkmanship, belligerence and now a book review.
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Around that time, budgetary brinkmanship in the United States entered a whole new era.
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A pair of pimps liken Richard Nixon's Vietnam brinkmanship to their own management style.
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The fight over refugees has introduced a new climate of fear-mongering and brinkmanship.
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In a world of Trump brinkmanship, all that could allow time for further negotiations.
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They have characterized the political brinkmanship and stuttering negotiations as inconsequential to their operations.
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Some saw a method to the perceived madness — a potentially shrewd act of brinkmanship.
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Sadly, there are reasons to fear that brinkmanship and politics will get in the way.
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They juxtapose May's brinkmanship with a somewhat unexpected role model - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
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There will be hearings and amended offers and lots of brinkmanship, as Lipson called it.
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"Race driving is a form of brinkmanship, I suppose," he told The Times in 1967.
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Both parties have engaged in such brinkmanship over the years and paid a political price.
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This round, too, might involve brinkmanship and delay, at least until after the presidential election.
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That also means using trade to foster better relationships, not as leverage in political brinkmanship.
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Trump's brinkmanship with him has succeeded so far in being at once dangerous and ineffective.
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But the meeting promises to be a spectacle of brinkmanship that has oil markets on tenterhooks.
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Brinkmanship and tough talk have been North Korea's favorite card in dealing with its external foes.
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There were reasons for Petrov to think Reagan's brinkmanship had escalated to an actual nuclear exchange.
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Longer term, the damage from Trump's trade policy brinkmanship may outlast his tariffs and his presidency.
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Unfortunately, our public servants find themselves as bargaining chips in political brinkmanship more and more often.
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Commentary: With Trump, nuclear brinkmanship is back It's still early days for the forty-fifth president.
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Right now, there are no obvious signs that the U.S. side has any — only more brinkmanship.
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But as the political environment has become more polarized, brinkmanship over the debt ceiling has increased.
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The end to D.C. business-as-usual just created a new normal of brinkmanship and gridlock.
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This brinkmanship over issues unrelated to national security have cause the federal government to literally stop.
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Gone are the confrontational talk of a government shutdown and the brinkmanship over the debt limit.
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Democrats should point that out and push for an end to brinkmanship over the country's finances.
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Hitting the debt ceiling is not the same as a government shutdown or other fiscal brinkmanship.
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During the past year, the need for leadership intensified but was met with inaction and brinkmanship.
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Looming over the brinkmanship is the mix of hopes and fears about the fall congressional elections.
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Such a delay increases the likelihood of long-term Continuing Resolutions and brinkmanship over unrelated issues.
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Finally, the strain could push North Korea to engage in increasingly dangerous brinkmanship in the region.
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But there is no obvious reason Cold War II should feature nuclear brinkmanship or proxy wars.
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"It's high brinkmanship with the Legislature," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy organization.
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Iran has dismissed the accusations entirely and accuses the United States of brinkmanship with its troop deployments.
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Few members of the coalition, even those from Mr Netanyahu's Likud Party, supported the prime minister's brinkmanship.
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He also said "unrelenting political brinkmanship" poses a threat to the timely payments for core state priorities.
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Retention of his nuclear weapons program guarantees Kim's security and strengthens his position in brinkmanship and negotiations.
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It would, however, provide real benefits by sustaining government services and ending the politics of budget brinkmanship.
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Friday brings an important milestone in the seemingly endless brinkmanship battle between the warring factions in Congress.
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Political brinkmanship is making financial markets nervous and this is precisely the gamble that Trump is making.
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The brinkmanship caused anxiety around the world, and Mr. Modi may well decide to continue that stance.
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The government is under the control of an erratic racist who engages in nuclear brinkmanship on Twitter.
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The debt-limit brinkmanship and government shutdown during the Obama administration rattled markets and slowed economic growth.
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His games of brinkmanship top the list of potential risks, along with Brexit, that could cripple economic growth.
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When the ministers have their regular meeting on Monday there will be little brinkmanship or fear of failure.
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Relations between India and Pakistan are returning to the normal huffy disdain after a week of military brinkmanship.
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Moreover, Trump's dangerous brinkmanship with top members of the Republican Party, House Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Sen.
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He conceded that "brinkmanship" was making investors nervous but he added that the US economy still looks strong.
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To strip the incentives for political games and brinkmanship, the budget resolution would carry the rule of law.
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Far from dealing with the long-term debt problem, recent debt limit brinkmanship has often made it worse.
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And I'm just wondering, how long do you think we engage in what some might even call Brinkmanship?
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While threats and bluster may have contributed to the current movement toward an agreement, will brinkmanship work elsewhere?
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U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are playing a dangerous game of brinkmanship.
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The Japanese public has much less appetite for brinkmanship than Mr. Trump appears to have, Mr. Harris said.
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He also appeared to walk back from brinkmanship that has threatened the United States' trade talks with China.
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And public taunting, saber-rattling and domestic politics are all contributing to an atmosphere of volatility and brinkmanship.
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However, the current state budget solves neither the state's political crisis nor the budget brinkmanship played in Illinois.
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And public taunting, saber-rattling and domestic politics are all contributing to an atmosphere of volatility and brinkmanship.
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After a year of provocative missile tests, fiery rhetoric and dangerous brinkmanship, Mr. Obama's warning has proved prescient.
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After nearly 10 years of crippling austerity, contraction, brinkmanship and bailouts, the Greek economy returned to growth in 2016.
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But who knows how political brinkmanship and bureaucratic red tape during the negotiations will affect travel at the margins.
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The Indian public is, in fact, tired of endless brinkmanship with Pakistan and yearns for stronger, more effective government.
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The USMCA was agreed last year after 15 months of sometimes acrimonious negotiations marked by episodes of U.S. brinkmanship.
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INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER, Narendra Modi, may hope that brinkmanship against Pakistan will fire up voters ahead of April's elections.
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Mrs May's brinkmanship could yet persuade enough waverers in Parliament that it really is her deal or no deal.
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Expect the coming months to bring theatre, brinkmanship, clever-clever flourishes and ultimately, in all likelihood, an In vote.
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It is keenly aware of the danger of nuclear escalation, and of the risks of brinkmanship to its economy.
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He has engaged in the characteristic brashness and brinkmanship that he uses to set the table for his negotiations.
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Migrants' advocates had accused the Trump administration of engaging in brinkmanship for political gain at the asylum seekers' expense.
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Mr. Mulvaney also helped spearhead the debt ceiling brinkmanship in 2011 over Republican demands to cut Planned Parenthood funding.
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If neither side backs off, the brinkmanship could permanently pull apart the supply chains that entwine the countries' economies.
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One low-water mark may have been the brinkmanship over raising the debt ceiling during the summer of 2011.
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You may be hoping that the Trump administration's trade brinkmanship will lead to better access for your products abroad.
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It led to history's most powerful blasts as well as decades of superpower brinkmanship with thousands of nuclear arms.
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The brinkmanship has evolved into a dangerous but almost formalized language of escalation and de-escalation over the years.
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"I want somebody at OMB that understands that brinkmanship is not how we do a budget around here," McCaskill said.
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No. Trump's darkest turns — the defense of white nationalists, the family separations, the tossed-off nuclear brinkmanship — are profoundly disturbing.
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The dispute has led to years of brinkmanship with both sides promising to protect their resources and warning about encroachment.
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The two campaigns have engaged in a measure of brinkmanship in recent days, with Mr. Sanders's team one-upping Mrs.
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Expect heightened political demagoguery, irrational levels of brinkmanship, and extreme financial-market volatility for substantially all of those 131 days.
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The difference now is that when the brinkmanship fails, they will have run out of excuses for failing to deliver.
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But it remains to be seen whether Trump, a president prone to brinkmanship and trade tariffs, would also back down.
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Disagreement between the parties on those issues could spark a period of political brinkmanship and a government shutdown before Christmas.
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While the economic brinkmanship has tamped down returns compared with 2017's robust market, the U.S. climate remains mostly constructive.
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"Modi is better at brinkmanship than they were in these actions where there's an element of risk," Mr. Shukla said.
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Perhaps Mr. Trump is simply importing the brinkmanship and bluffing he espoused, in his real estate days, as negotiating tactics.
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Brinkmanship with North Korea threatens American troops, allies in Asia, even American soil, while his bellicosity fortifies his own base.
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Flare-ups like these have formed an unending pattern of brinkmanship ever since the partition of British India after 1947.
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But a permanent solution to the borrowing cap could eliminate the kind of legislative brinkmanship that leads to federal shutdowns.
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But, at least publicly, Iran remains defiant and wedded to brinkmanship tactics over its nuclear program and regional military influence.
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More recently, congressional debt ceiling brinkmanship in 2011 led Standard & Poor's to downgrade the credit rating of the United States.
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Better deterrence in the Korean Peninsula also means schooling Pyongyang that it has much to lose through its studied brinkmanship.
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But one bombing in Kashmir, and weeks of military brinkmanship with Pakistan afterward, appears to have interrupted Mr. Modi's slump.
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Months later, Trump and Kim backed away from brinkmanship and met face-to-face in Singapore for an unprecedented diplomatic meeting.
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Optimists argue that brinkmanship has always been part of California's water wars and no one has ever careened over the edge.
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The brinkmanship, favored by Steve Bannon, might hurt red-state Senate Democrats, but could boomerang in the House, the Journal says.
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He will also face a range of thorny conflicts elsewhere, from South Sudan to Yemen, and nuclear brinkmanship in North Korea.
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But President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a former foreign minister who now plays an apolitical role, said brinkmanship was to be expected.
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The army has long nurtured grudges against the Sharifs' party, the PML-N, because of Sharif's past brinkmanship with the military.
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Brexit supporters, some of whom are relaxed about leaving with no deal, believe that further brinkmanship could help Britain's negotiating position.
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On this front, too, North Korea's recent brinkmanship may have unexpectedly paved the way for new (if slim) possibilities for cooperation.
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It's true that Iran has exploited international outrage at American brinkmanship to withdraw from some nuclear restrictions without provoking a crisis.
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President Trump and his allies may see his brinkmanship as a victory, but it will prove to be a Pyrrhic one.
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After the watershed moments of the mid-6900s, though, the "shutdown" seemed to become a new political tool based on brinkmanship.
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"We are trapped in brinkmanship because there is not a lot of wiggle room between Yankee and Southern Culture," Woodard says.
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Ever since the mid-1990s, shutdown brinkmanship has become more and more like a reality TV show, including at the present.
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The threat may be brinkmanship, but, in theory, that uranium could also be used to fuel a bomb within a year.
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It's virtually certain to be rejected in a crucial vote next week — and that could mean weeks of perilous political brinkmanship.
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Under normal circumstances, conservatives might begrudgingly allow the government to be funded temporarily, without any brinkmanship, to avoid an election-eve shutdown.
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But, but, but... It's worth noting that this kind of brinkmanship is fairly typical until practically the day before the government shutdowns.
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WHAT HE DESERVES MORE CREDIT FOR Maintaining his composure and avoiding many of the traps laid for him by right-wing brinkmanship.
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Some analysts have speculated that North Korea's brinkmanship earlier this week might have been calculated to isolate Bolton from Trump and Pompeo.
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"The court is engaging in political brinkmanship with this ruling, and the cost will be borne by our children," the statement said.
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North Korea is entering athletes in the Olympics, easing, for the moment at least, the childish brinkmanship that has been going on.
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That means another week of brinkmanship, with a possible partial government shutdown at the end of next week, is growing more likely.
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After months of high-profile diplomatic brinkmanship by top Israeli officials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia pardoned Ms. Issachar in January.
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Nagy's novel roguishly equates international brinkmanship with interpersonal relations, an analogy that underscores the ways in which both can abjure immutable truths.
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They embrace brinkmanship and will often be ultra-aggressive at the start of a bid, but later retreat to cut a deal.
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The more urgent brinkmanship in Washington is surrounding the government shutdown, which is now officially the longest ever, with no end in sight.
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Also speaking on the Davos panel titled "Nuclear Brinkmanship", was Senior Fellow for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Vienna Center Angela Kane.
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"Experience tells us that leaving it to the last minute incentivizes politicians to play brinkmanship, with adverse consequences for the economy," he added.
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Though the communist parties that run China and Vietnam officially have brotherly ties, China's brinkmanship has forced Vietnam to recalibrate its defence strategy.
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The calm mood that has prevailed on the Korean peninsula for the past year is clearly preferable to the nuclear brinkmanship of 2017.
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With the IOC and other sports bodies, a combination of bluff, bluster, arm-twisting, and brinkmanship managed to avoid a humiliation for Russia.
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Over the next year, keep in mind that Chinese ambition and international brinkmanship are engulfing all of Asia, not just in North Korea.
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Behind the scenes, GOP lawmakers are frustrated by Trump's brinkmanship and by his indifference about what a shutdown would mean for his party.
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Part of the reason for this latest episode of budgetary brinkmanship is Congress's general inability to get just about anything done these days.
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Though the communist parties that run China and Vietnam officially have brotherly ties, Beijing's brinkmanship has forced Vietnam to recalibrate its defense strategy.
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The nuclear brinkmanship between the leaders of North Korea and the United States has been good for at least one business ... bomb shelters.
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The renewed brinkmanship has plunged the world's two largest economies back into a trade war that had seemed on the cusp of ending.
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"I look forward to the U.S. and North Korea working with regional partners, including China, to reduce tensions and end the nuclear brinkmanship."
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If this is just classic North Korean brinkmanship, Trump may be shrewd not to give in to another cycle of attention-demanding threats.
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After a peaceful respite during the Olympics, we will probably return to a new cycle of North Korean missile launches and nuclear brinkmanship.
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Both Mr Trump and Mr Mnuchin have said it might be possible to have a "good" government shutdown — heightening the risk of brinkmanship.
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Should that fail, Europe could condemn Iran's latest move while treating it as an act of diplomatic brinkmanship rather than a non-proliferation crisis.
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Yet Kim Jong Un's backward little dictatorship has grabbed the attention of the whole world, and even of America's president, with its nuclear brinkmanship.
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The Trump administration hopes this economic brinkmanship will force the Chinese into cutting a trade deal, but there's no guarantee that's going to happen.
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In the first half of 2015, brinkmanship by Alexis Tsipras's newly-elected radical-left government nearly precipitated a disastrous Grexit from the monetary union.
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"The hope is that this is just brinkmanship and an arrangement will be arrived at by the governments to avoid such tariffs," Luria said.
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Some experts suspect that Trump and congressional Republicans' brinkmanship over securing funding for the wall will be sidelined amid the push to help Harvey.
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But after a suicide bombing in Kashmir set off weeks of military brinkmanship with Pakistan, even once-critical Indians have started rallying behind him.
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The regime starts a cycle of brinkmanship and provocations, followed by a willingness to talk, then dangles the possibility of concessions that never materialize.
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The unique dynamic sets up a fresh round of brinkmanship involving the Rams, the Chargers and San Diego that could drag on another year.
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The Kavanaugh saga has further divided the country along partisan lines and sadly relegated the serious issue of rampant sexual assault to political brinkmanship.
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The point, then, is that Putin's brinkmanship has not yielded a pliant Europe, one willing to bend to Russia's interests in Ukraine and elsewhere.
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What will matter is that the world's two largest economies seem quite prepared to play a game of brinkmanship with seemingly no end in sight.
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After all, institutions that appear serially incapable of setting a budget or paying debts without months of brinkmanship do not reek of competence and probity.
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From North America to North Korea, Mr Trump has made a habit of threatening to abandon his own deals even after reaching them through brinkmanship.
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The administration has a mixed track record on brinkmanship, securing some gains, but also miscalculating the determination and resilience of its opponents in some cases.
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The only winners that come out of this brinkmanship are those who are able to acquire and develop these public spaces for their own profit.
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The delicate game theory of nuclear brinkmanship is predicated, in no small part, on the idea that the two sides are engaging in rational calculation.
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" Henson's other daughter, Lisa Henson — who is the current president of the Jim Henson Company — confirmed to the New York Times that Whitmire "played brinkmanship.
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"It will not be able to secure the liquidity, safety and returns that are available in the U.S." But brinkmanship does not breed rational thought.
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Conkar and others I spoke with grew exasperated when describing the brinkmanship American allies felt subjected to after being accused of crossing the United States.
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Ms. Pelosi is determined to prevent the shutdown brinkmanship from interfering with the Democrats' assumption of power and her ceremony-soaked return to the speakership.
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Editorial It has been depressing to watch as Kenya's presidential election saga has gone from fraud to hope to sham, and now to dangerous brinkmanship.
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Blunt yet affable, Mr. Schäuble had a talent for brinkmanship that often helped Germany's point of view to prevail, to the frustration of his critics.
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Though the communist parties that run China and Vietnam officially have brotherly ties, experts say Beijing's brinkmanship has forced Vietnam to recalibrate its defense strategy.
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On foreign policy, it would offer hawkishness with a dose of idealistic rhetoric – meaning brinkmanship with the Russians, not a rapprochement, plus military escalation everywhere.
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"It is a warning to the Government not to drift into No Deal at the end of March by accident or through brinkmanship," she said.
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The shutdown stems from a brinkmanship between Mr. Christie, who is a Republican, and Vincent Prieto, the speaker of the State Assembly and a Democrat.
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"He played brinkmanship very aggressively in contract negotiations," Lisa Henson, president of the Jim Henson Company, and Jim Henson's daughter, said in a telephone interview.
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Everything else — the purges, the killing of the young American, the missile shots and nuclear tests, the brinkmanship with the Trump administration — serves that ambition.
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The brinkmanship is not unusual and is often baked into government budget negotiations with threats of a shutdown serving as catalysts to last-minute deals.
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The recent brinkmanship between US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over the fate of the refugee deal has attracted intense interest internationally.
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"If Trump's new NAFTA is so great, why does he need to resort to brinkmanship to ram it through Congress?" asked Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator.
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" Experts have warned that brinkmanship between the Saudi-backed UN Yemen government and the Houthis over the Safer FSO vessel "is threatening a serious environmental emergency.
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This brinkmanship "breaks the history of bipartisanship" that CHIP has long enjoyed, says David Blumenthal, the president of the Commonwealth Fund, a health-policy think-tank.
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Budget dysfunction did not start in this decade, but the most celebrated example of congressional brinkmanship in recent years may have been the original fiscal cliff.
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The administration cannot be sure tariffs would not push the economy into a recession for which it would likely be blamed, which makes brinkmanship very risky.
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Many on the Republican side seemed so wrung out by weeks of tension and brinkmanship they are ready to offload the whole issue to the Senate.
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"Going forward, it's critical that Congress overcome obstruction to this program and regularly replenish the number of visas available to avoid future brinkmanship," Shaheen said Monday.
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Guyana is an enormous triumph for Exxon, which has been battered by the loss of world-class assets in the post-Crimea U.S. brinkmanship with Russia.
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Washington should back the current policy, knowing full well that our security guarantees provide a failsafe for South Korea's defense should North Korea return to brinkmanship.
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Not only is the limit failing to hold down the debt, it creates unfortunate opportunities for political grandstanding, partisan cheap shots and fiscal brinkmanship in Washington.
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Part of the difficulty of discerning where things stand is the mix of agendas involved and the brinkmanship that always accompanies the final stages of negotiations.
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That confidence has emboldened Democrats to engage in some brinkmanship that they may have steered away from with a less bombastic figure in the White House.
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Only on Tuesday, Mr. Trump was trying to engage in fiscal brinkmanship, threatening another government shutdown if his hard-line demands on immigration were not met.
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Yet he does once again find himself the victim of a game of brinkmanship in the state capital over which he has little or no control.
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Officials and analysts in South Korea saw the North as resorting to its characteristic brinkmanship to gain leverage over Washington, rather than giving up dialogue completely.
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From 2011 through 2014, as the House Republicans played round after round of fiscal brinkmanship, Obama reluctantly signed last-minute budget deals that continually shortchanged Obamacare.
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I'd just published a column on how China was profiting from the U.S.-North Korea nuclear brinkmanship, and it included some choice words about Bannon's boss.
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A solution in Congress that might end brinkmanship over immigration and federal spending ahead of a Friday night government funding deadline hinges on politics and trust.
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But some experts questioned whether the changes to NAFTA were worth the strain put on relations with Canada by Trump's threats and brinkmanship during the negotiations.
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"The generous analysis would be that he's playing brinkmanship and trying to up the ante," said Arturo Sarukhán, a former Mexican diplomat to the United States.
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Commentary: With Trump, nuclear brinkmanship is back North Korea has been a thorn in the side of the United States since the days of Harry S. Truman.
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The bottom line: We are very close to the worst-case scenario for Brexit negotiations where positions become entrenched, goodwill evaporates and brinkmanship leads inexorably to disaster.
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There have certainly been close calls in the past, when brinkmanship combined with war games or glitches almost lead to a nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War.
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Despite the prospect of further brinkmanship until the summit, financial markets and some business leaders took heart that a deal now appeared more likely, easing some uncertainty.
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The warning "reflects Connecticut's ongoing budget impasse and brinkmanship, which could reduce significant amounts of municipal aid payments to local governments," said S&P analyst Victor Medeiros.
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"Turkey is playing a game of brinkmanship with the hope that Germany will back down because that is what has happened in the past," Mr. Unluhisarcikli said.
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That kind of brinkmanship led to then Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev's eventual ouster and also the eventual elevation of Leonid Brezhnev to the leadership of the nation.
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Brinkmanship over the debt limit could ultimately have rating consequences, as failure to raise it would jeopardise the Treasury's ability to meet debt service and other obligations.
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Between threats of nuclear annihilation, brinkmanship, and attacks on South Korea, Kim has kept a firm grip on power throughout, and his people have very few freedoms.
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In the past, the threat of relocation to Los Angeles has worked to push other cities to pony up public money, with the league often encouraging such brinkmanship.
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Why it matters: Everyone is a potential target in this brinkmanship as nerves fray, the global order erodes, and the old rules of international engagement are thrown out.
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But Mr. Trump's earlier brinkmanship over debates came months ago, not on the eve of a vote, when it could shape the opinions of Iowa's late-deciding caucusgoers.
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Passage of the plan would ease the brinkmanship over spending that roils Washington so regularly that financial markets barely flinch anymore at the threat of a government shutdown.
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The British pound fell on Tuesday as investors bet Johnson's Brexit brinkmanship could trigger a messy divorce that would sow chaos through the world economy and financial markets.
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The move crosses at least two major points of tension with Trump — his acrimonious relationship with Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and his trade brinkmanship with China.
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"Sadly, this action by the Trump administration just further cements a dangerous game of escalatory brinkmanship where neither side is giving the other any off-ramp," he said.
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A broad budget deal could end the brinkmanship over spending that roils Washington so regularly that financial markets barely flinch anymore at the threat of a government shutdown.
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However, further timetable slippages and any return to the brinkmanship of last year could lead to increased liquidity strains in the summer and the resurfacing of "Grexit" fears.
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"I think we are entering a long period of brinkmanship and uncertainty, with the calls for strikes on one side, and elections on the other," Mr. Verjee said.
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Some believe North Korea, whose diplomatic stock-in-trade is brinkmanship and provocation, could resume its activities including missile tests or cyberattacks, fueling a renewed escalation in hostilities.
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Analysts said the move is not a total surprise — brinkmanship is North Korea's diplomatic stock-in-trade — and does not necessarily mean the talks will not go ahead.
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While Turkey's brinkmanship may have paid off in securing U.S. support to smooth over tensions, northern Syria will continue to challenge a more circumscribed U.S. Middle East policy.
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And it is a clear example of Middle East brinkmanship that runs counter to what President Barack Obama intended when the nuclear deal was struck in July 2015.
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Richard Neal, the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, warned of potential economic fallout if the President decides to "engage in brinkmanship" over the debt limit.
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Given the heated nature of the dispute between the world's two largest economies, investors were slow to embrace the news fully, as both sides have engaged in brinkmanship.
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Border brinkmanship A similar process is playing out over the President's threat to shut the southern border over a spike in asylum claims that is overloading the system.
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Congress usually has overcome bouts of fiscal brinkmanship to waive the spending caps over the last four years and suspending or raising the statutory limit on federal borrowing.
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Much of the action lingers in a swirling brinkmanship with exposition, serving up bits and pieces to chew on, but nothing so hearty that it gives everything away.
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After two years of intense pressure — the U.S. trade war with China, its brinkmanship with allies, and finally the government shutdown — the global system is showing signs of cleaving.
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Analysts at BofA Merrill Lynch believe a prolonged period of brinkmanship would drag China's growth to 6.1% this year, from a near 30-year low of 6.6% in 2018.
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Diplomats said some of the harder brinkmanship from the continent should be seen partly as intended to pressure British members of parliament to back May's deal or face chaos.
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The provisional agreement concluded in Algiers was then turned into a final accord in Vienna this week ("Saudi brinkmanship aims to re-establish leverage within OPEC", Reuters, Nov. 28).
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"Evaluating and confirming a Justice to sit on this nation's highest court should not be an exercise in political brinkmanship and partisan posturing," Clinton said in a statement Wednesday.
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JFK stood up to his advisors, and the blockade, which felt like nuclear brinkmanship to some Americans at the time, turned out to be the right level of escalation.
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Friday's announcement was an extraordinary comedown that left many in the White House and those who support Trump marveling at the futility of the preceding four weeks of brinkmanship.
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But by addressing President Trump in a personal statement on Friday, the nation's leader, Kim Jong-un, has pushed his government's brinkmanship to a new, potentially more perilous level.
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Over the past week, Mr Trump has indulged in nuclear brinkmanship in North Korea, issued vague threats of military action in Venezuela and flirted with white supremacists at home.
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Still, it has set up a dangerous game of brinkmanship between unions and the French government, which has hinted that it is willing to let Air France go under.
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Our diplomacy should not be defined by bluster, threats and brinkmanship, tweets or temper tantrums, but by a vision for peace and security addressing multiple interests of the region.
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Does it set the Republicans up for brinkmanship in December with the Democrats, when they say, We're not going to do tax reform unless you do this our way?
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Political brinkmanship could roil the markets and lessen investor confidence, and investors should prepare themselves for a potentially hair-raising ride as we head back to the brink again.
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About the only thing the parties seemed ready to agree on was a new election date — though not without some Talmudic debate and another round of 11th-hour brinkmanship.
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Trump's unconventional approach toward North Korea had many skeptics ahead of the summit, though it was at least a welcome development compared to the brinkmanship of the past year.
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Seoul (CNN)Its northern neighbor is engaged in nuclear brinkmanship with the US. Its elected President was just impeached and indicted on corruption charges, leaving behind a gaping power vacuum.
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Diplomats said some of the harder line brinkmanship from the continent should be seen partly as intended to pressure British members of parliament to back May's deal or face chaos.
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But examining the history of the judicial wars this way, by tallying filibusters or failed nominees, is less illuminating than examining the partisan motives that have driven escalating judicial brinkmanship.
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In general, indulging those temptations is a disastrous idea—but it is also possible to imagine Democrats using the GOP's bind, and general disarray, to end debt limit brinkmanship forever.
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"The FAA extension we are considering this week is not a pawn in a Washington game of political brinkmanship," said House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.).
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PARIS — A game of brinkmanship began when the Musée d'Orsay here invited Julian Schnabel to choose paintings from its 19703th-century collection to exhibit alongside his own works of art.
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The Senate's vote, late Friday night, came after a day of budget brinkmanship in Washington that included the 90-minute Oval Office negotiating session between Mr. Trump and Mr. Schumer.
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Over the course of about 70 hours, Wesley Morris caught up with the dragons, beheadings and brinkmanship before the finale on Sunday by watching three or four episodes a day.
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Brinkmanship over debt negotiations could easily tip over into loss of market confidence in the U.S. dollar, Butler said, supporting gold by making it cheaper for holders of other currencies.
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On other shores, Fidel Castro's death at 90 summoned memories of Cuban revolution, nuclear brinkmanship and enduring enmity between a cigar-smoking strongman and the superpower only 90 miles away.
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The world is not yet back to the brinkmanship and "fire and fury" rhetoric between Trump and the isolated state that sparked fears of a slide to war last year.
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Scene City 10 Photos View Slide Show ' Often a night at the ballet can serve as an escape from reality, a respite from politics, with its gridlock and its brinkmanship.
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And while Trump took a victory lap on Monday, touting the success of his tariff brinkmanship, he also admitted the future of the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement was uncertain.
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But many are beginning to fear that if the continuing brinkmanship between the world's two largest economies is not resolved, American companies will be left in an even worse position.
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China today significantly escalated the stakes in its brinkmanship with the U.S., sentencing a Canadian man to death in a case rooted in an unrelated extradition request from the United States.
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Analysts at BofA Merrill Lynch believe a prolonged period of brinkmanship would drag China's growth to 6.1 percent this year, from a near 30-year low of 6.6 percent in 2018.
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Still in his 30s (like much about him and his country, his exact age is a mystery), he may be daunted by the bleak prospect of a lifetime of nuclear brinkmanship.
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Polls show the CSU's brinkmanship is relatively unpopular in Bavaria, save with one constituency: supporters of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, whose voters Soeder needs to win back.
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And CHIP is hardly the only initiative Congressional dithering has sent into uncertainty recently, due to brinkmanship and reliance on imminent, profound crises to drive last-minute, often stop-gap, action.
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Commentary: When the FBI confronts the White HouseCommentary: With Trump, nuclear brinkmanship is back The truth behind the allegations, innuendo and rumor is less important than the problems they are causing.
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To re-establish some leverage in the negotiations, Saudi officials have resorted to brinkmanship, threatening that there will be no deal at all unless Iran, Iraq and Russia are more cooperative.
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The chairman of the Jim Henson Company revealed that Whitmire also made "outrageous demands and often played brinkmanship," which he was told to stop as far back as the mid-1990s.
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He has pressures to deal with — as recent purges reveal — and, if he cannot achieve sanctions relief through diplomacy, he might return to brinkmanship, meaning a return to 2017, or worse.
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There's an opportunity for the president to avoid the potential pitfalls of brinkmanship and a threatened declaration of national emergency over his quest to get additional barriers on our southern border.
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Robin confesses at the outset that he is horrified by the Wohlstetters' nuclear brinkmanship, but says he has made a diligent effort to provide a balanced, nonjudgmental account of their work.
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After some brinkmanship and false starts WADA was allowed access to the laboratory in January and returned with data and samples now being used to build cases against Russian drug cheats.
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But the brinkmanship leading up to the agreement was bruising and the metals tariffs remain in place, severely testing the relationship between Canada and its biggest and most important trading partner.
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The two countries, rival empires since the 16th century and adversaries in multiple wars in the 19th century, have in recent years shown a capacity for brinkmanship followed by de-escalation.
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And at times, Rooney has not helped himself: the tawdry youthful indiscretions, the unseemly contract brinkmanship, the occasional on-field outburst at his own supporters, as at the 2010 World Cup.
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He warns that engaging in brinkmanship now — before Iran has seen significant economic improvement — could spoil the chances of getting the deal that Americans and Europeans wanted in the first place.
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In a game of television brinkmanship, CNN will host the first of two town-hall-style meetings in South Carolina with Republican presidential candidates, with three at each, held on successive nights.
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It recounts the chaotic period of brinkmanship, improvisation and disappointment that unfolded as the Republican Party -- yet again, but for the first time with its newly minted Republican President -- turned against itself.
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But the economy, though fundamentally "good," faces more risks than just inflation that is too low, he said, including "brinkmanship" U.S. trade negotiations with China that create volatility and uncertainty for businesses.
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"Brinkmanship over the debt limit could ultimately have rating consequences, as failure to raise it would jeopardize the Treasury's ability to meet debt service and other obligations," Fitch said in a statement.
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Few were as alarming as the one that just hit the 2020 contest—a crisis of deadly brinkmanship in the South China Sea, now abruptly resolved after two tense and confusing weeks.
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"As China's economic and geopolitical rise butts up against existing US interests, eleventh hour negotiations and brinkmanship will be a recurring theme which the markets will learn to price in," they said.
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It was fiscal pressure and political brinkmanship that led to the decade-long stagnation of the NIH budget, and in the long-run neither of these factors seem likely to go away.
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The brinkmanship over the migrants has sparked terse words between European governments, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying there's a "political crisis" between Italy and the rest of the EU over migration.
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President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are set to meet at the negotiating table in Singapore on Tuesday in a dramatic reversal from last year's insults and brinkmanship.
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At the time, S&P cited political brinkmanship involved in the debt ceiling debates — a scenario that has played out multiple times since as warring factions in Congress have battled over spending.
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His nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea seems to involve a belief that nuclear war might just be feasible as a means, short of a blood bath, to bloody Kim Jong-un's nose.
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Shocked and surprised when Mr. Trump imposed tariffs this year on European steel and aluminum, they are still struggling to cope with his use of brinkmanship to negotiate with a longtime ally.
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The Serbs' brinkmanship over the holiday is widely seen as part of an attempt by Dodik to test the limits of his freedom of maneuver against post-war Bosnia's fragile central authorities.
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With the annual negotiations entering the traditional phase of last-minute brinkmanship, which can stretch deep into the night, some negotiators said they feared that the conference would end with weak resolutions.
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The hearings come at a moment of brinkmanship and negotiation, with the world's two largest economies repeatedly veering toward a trade war only to reverse course and edge instead toward diplomatic discussions.
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More likely, the report argued, trade brinkmanship will continue until global financial markets weaken, leading to a deal that results in some of the most severe risks being taken off the table.
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The most important is that North Korea may return to testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, for that would mark a huge escalation of tensions and renewed concerns about brinkmanship and war.
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The two agreed to the debate, proposed by MSNBC, after brinkmanship in which each camp pretended the other was holding up the prospect of another face-off before the New Hampshire vote. Mrs.
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In 2011, S&P stripped the United States of its coveted top rating over a debt ceiling showdown in Washington, citing "political brinkmanship" during the debate over raising the government's legal borrowing limit.
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Since the 2006 war with Israel, which killed more than 1,300 people, displaced a million in Lebanon and up to 500,000 in Israel, both sides have engaged in brinkmanship but avoided renewed conflict.
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A failure at the first attempt would spark weeks of "acrimonious posturing, brinkmanship, threats, people worrying about a leadership contest, general election, Jeremy Corbyn" just as liquidity thinned at year-end, he added.
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Janning believed the CSU's dangerous brinkmanship with Merkel over migration was also a reaction to AfD barbs that the CSU lacked credibility — that the party talked tough, but didn't follow through with action.
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After weeks of resistance, Trump agreed to just that on Friday, rendering the past month of stalemate a futile exercise in brinkmanship that left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid and anxious.
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He says his delegates are being "stolen" in places like Tennessee and Louisiana, despite the fact that his campaign has not engaged in the type of brinkmanship and parliamentary tactics needed to win.
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With fears growing that the political brinkmanship in London could lead, as May has warned, to Britain leaving without a deal, businesses and the EU's executive ramped up planning for such an eventuality.
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South Korea's president, Moon Jae-in, is a strong proponent of dialogue with North Korea, even as his country's American allies say military action remains an option to halt the North's nuclear brinkmanship.
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China In other trade news, the game of brinkmanship between the US and China keeps escalating, and it looks like China may be ready to play the ace up its sleeve: Rare earth metals.
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The consolidation of Republican power in Washington was supposed to create huge dividends for every kind of interest group by eliminating legislative gridlock and brinkmanship and giving a single party power to set policy.
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In August 2011, S&P stripped the United States of its coveted top rating over a debt ceiling showdown in Washington, citing "political brinkmanship" during the debate over raising the government's legal borrowing limit.
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With fears growing that the political brinkmanship in London could lead, as May has warned, to Britain leaving without a deal, businesses and the EU's executive have ramped up planning for such an eventuality.
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Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a former foreign minister who now plays an apolitical role, warned against "fresh election panic", suggesting in a newspaper interview that the brinkmanship was not out of the ordinary.
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There is no guarantee that this approach would stop the North Korean trajectory, but it is quite clear that adhering to the current approach will bring the world to the edge of nuclear brinkmanship.
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"Whether a new kind of Trumpian brinkmanship will now cause China to reconsider its hard-line position towards Taiwan, or to respond in a dangerous and militant way, remains to be seen," he said.
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But Mr. Kim returned home empty-handed — without relief from international sanctions — prompting the question of what he will do next: Particularly, will he resume his nuclear and missile brinkmanship to reassert his leverage?
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Colao, the Italian boss of the world's second biggest mobile company, said he expected politicians in Britain and the European Union to ultimately adopt a pragmatic approach to Brexit despite recent signs of brinkmanship.
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While this brinkmanship plays out, federal agents stationed in Afghanistan responded to a suicide attack at the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel and a deputy U.S. marshal was shot and killed a few days in Pennsylvania.
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The restoration work at the launch site could be just a negotiating ploy by Kim after the failure of the summit and just the latest round of decades-long brinkmanship by the North Koreans.
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Launching a new round of brinkmanship, Trump warned Tuesday that he was ready to plunge the country into another government shutdown if he doesn't get Democrats to sign up to tough new immigration laws.
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So it is likely to go for most of the 2020 campaign, as a president prone to political brinkmanship and angry outbursts simultaneously navigates divided government and his own battle for a second term.
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"Brinkmanship over the debt limit could ultimately have rating consequences, as failure to raise it would jeopardize the Treasury's ability to meet debt service and other obligations," Fitch said in a statement, Reuters reported.
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In a 1984 paper on the private supply of a public good, the economists Christopher Bliss and Barry Nalebuff wrote that "binding agreements combined with side payments can always produce a superior outcome" to brinkmanship.
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Rees-Mogg, a leading Brexiteer in Britain's parliament, said May's agreed deal with the EU remained unsatisfactory on a number of grounds and that the political brinkmanship would not force him to vote in favour.
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Britain is about to enter negotiations with the EU over the terms of its exit, due in March 2019, though relations with Brussels have been overshadowed in recent weeks by a public display of brinkmanship.
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Just 21 days before Britain is due to leave the EU, the two sides are locked in a game of brinkmanship and attempts to reach a mutually acceptable deal could go down to the wire.
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Thus inhibited, its EU policy to date had amounted to tactical raids; even the 2011 British block on an EU rescue deal, subsequently dressed up as a coup, was a piece of brinkmanship gone wrong.
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Republicans have argued that the government can do exactly that, and that the brinkmanship rhetoric of the Obama administration is overwrought and an attempt to force them to cut a debt deal they don't like.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British companies selling everything from washing machines to flights, food and mortgages plan to spend tens of millions of pounds in case the political brinkmanship gripping the country leads to a disorderly Brexit.
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Add to this his adventures in nuclear brinkmanship; his assault on Obamacare; his moves to tear apart the world's free-trade system; and his use of the White House bully pulpit to normalize white supremacy.
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Controversy over the pipeline has pitted one province against another, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau siding publicly with oil-rich Alberta over neighboring British Columbia in an aggressive and un-Canadian display of political brinkmanship.
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The biggest fears for further weakening economic growth have focused on the implications of a trade war but a combination of trade conflicts, geopolitical brinkmanship and the weaponizing of global finance is the larger threat.
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Just three weeks before Britain is due to leave the EU, the two sides are locked in a game of brinkmanship and attempts to reach a mutually acceptable deal could go down to the wire.
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That kind of brinkmanship could, many officials say, lead to a delay in Brexit as the only option for May to avoid running out of time to pass the necessary laws in the next month.
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So after a weekend spent spearing special counsel Robert Mueller on Twitter, Trump, helped by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, on Monday seeded a new cloud of obfuscation and confusion on Russia, budget brinkmanship and Iran.
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But perhaps out of all of this Trump bluster and brinkmanship, both sides will recognize the need for a better and fairer trade relationship, one that accounts for China's impressive rise, and America's legitimate grievances.
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The big picture: The inflection point was 2017, coinciding with President Trump's assumption of power and the intensification of U.S.-Chinese brinkmanship, according to data from the National Travel and Tourism Office, an industry association.
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"The fund is digging in its heels, but if the pattern of brinkmanship that the Europeans and the Greeks have practiced in the past prevails, you will see more instability in the markets," he said.
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Just 22 days before Britain is due to leave the EU the two sides are locked in a game of brinkmanship and attempts to reach a mutually acceptable deal could go down to the wire.
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The standoff continues a Washington trend, as banal now as it is nonsensical to veterans of the Capitol: legislative cliff-jumping in the name of brinkmanship, frustration or some combination thereof, with no clear endgame.
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America is deploying new tactics—poker-style brinkmanship—and new weapons that exploit its role as the nerve centre of the global economy to block the free flow of goods, data, ideas and money across borders.
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Mixed messages from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, pushback from members of the president's cabinet and Republicans in Congress have added to brinkmanship by Democrats to up the ante on another epic showdown over the debt ceiling.
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Earlier in the day, Morales, 48, said he would respect the court's decision, stepping back from brinkmanship he displayed at the weekend when he said the court had overstepped its mandate by ruling on the case.
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Far removed from the political posturing and brinkmanship that capture most of the attention in Britain's long and tedious departure from the European Union, Yme Pasma is deeply enmeshed in the mother of all logistical problems.
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Instead of waiting until the last minute and playing brinkmanship with budget negotiations, they should work with the same vigor that federal law enforcement officers do, with one goal: to keep America safe and protect Americans.
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While confrontations over water are common in the arid and drought-prone parts of the West, political brinkmanship and the threats of climate change have energized the issue even in traditionally wet areas like the Northeast.
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"(With) continued production cut brinkmanship from both OPEC and Russia, scepticism is still rife about whether tomorrow's official OPEC meeting in Vienna will be a success," said Mike van Dulken, head of research at Accendo Markets.
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After years of stand-offs and brinkmanship in the hotly contested region, acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is expected to unveil the Pentagon's new Indo-Pacific strategy at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday.
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Maybe Republicans worry that the D.C. government would waive these protections to make Congress live with the consequences of its own dirty work, or as part of an escalating brinkmanship with Congress, which controls D.C.'s budget?
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Mr. Ryan, meanwhile, was asked about Mr. Trump's refusal to rule out removing him as chairman of the convention, and he responded with a bit of brinkmanship, offering to step aside if Mr. Trump wanted him to.
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But what followed was a clash of cultures, not ideas: Union officials refused to budge on Greece's debt obligations, and after months of negotiation and brinkmanship, Greece nearly collapsed into bankruptcy before acceding to demands from Brussels.
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A staunch anti-abortion conservative, in 2011 Mr. Pence led House Republicans' efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, which helped convince many Americans that Congress would rather engage in partisan brinkmanship than work on solving the country's problems.
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The brinkmanship over the holiday is widely seen as part of an attempt by Milorad Dodik, the Serb Republic's nationalist president, to test the limits of his freedom of maneuver against post-war Bosnia's fragile central authorities.
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"Now it has brinkmanship, and things you wouldn't see before - an 8-year-old spelling a German or polysyllabic word that I've never heard of," said Lala, who will shortly start a medical residency at Brown University.
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Mr. Cotton, an immigration hard-liner, suggested that these Democrats will pay a price if their brinkmanship goes too far and they are seen as shutting down the government if they cannot offer amnesty for illegal immigrants.
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But now we have a president who baits foreign leaders who share his propensity for brinkmanship, and I have a son who doesn't really believe in the future — not just his own, but that of his country.
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Rather than treating debt ceiling increases as a matter of good housekeeping, politicians have fallen into the habit of flirting with default, engaging in bouts of brinkmanship that culminate in ad hoc deals on borrowing and spending.
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Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency said in an editorial North Korea was "playing a dangerous game of brinkmanship" and it should wake up to the fact that such a tactic "can never bring security it pursues".
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But by allowing the diplomacy to unfold, Trump risks being played in the same old game of North Korean brinkmanship and provocations followed by offers of dialogue and trawls for concessions that have tripped up past presidents.
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Plus, even if one believes that Kim Jong-Un is a rational leader – a bold claim given that few outsiders have so much as met with him – being rational doesn't preclude engaging in nuclear brinkmanship without end.
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Amid the brinkmanship, analysts have said that China could be the party that's less likely to back down due to the government not being constrained by domestic political pressures in the same way a U.S. administration is.
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Last weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled a potential return to Cold War-style atomic brinkmanship, warning that Moscow was ready for another here Cuban missile crisis if the United States deployed medium-range nuclear missiles to Europe.
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But months of brinkmanship lie ahead, with no guarantee that they and a second secessionist party, Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) with seven seats, will get much of what they want regarding a referendum or any move towards independence.
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Trump reportedly relished flaunting total control over the decision between war and peace, but in reality the brinkmanship showed just how quickly tough talk with Iran could spiral out of control into a conflict neither side really wants.
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"We expect North Korea to count its chips and continue its current game of brinkmanship, but also remain sufficiently restrained to not cross any implicit red lines," Mizuho Bank FX Strategist Chang Wei Liang said in a note.
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But without a road map, Mr. Trump's brinkmanship with China could still escalate into a mutually ruinous trade war, and Mr. Kim, like Iran's leaders, might decide that North Korea's only option is to accelerate its nuclear program.
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The governor and the Democratic-run legislature have engaged in brinkmanship: the governor insists that any spending plan must include some of his proposals, including a property-tax freeze, legislative term limits and a reform of workers' compensation insurance.
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Nobuhiko Kuramochi, chief strategist at Mizuho Securities, said Trump's perceived brinkmanship on many issues from Syria to tariffs on imports from major trading partners ahead of mid-term elections make it hard for markets to focus on economic fundamentals.
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Russia's increasing brinkmanship regularly reminds the world of its lethal nuclear capability, while its aggressive probing of international boundaries and norms -- including both physical territory and the cyber domain -- appears recklessly defiant, marginalizing Russia further as an international pariah.
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The brinkmanship six weeks after the April 9 election poses another challenge to the decade-long reign of the right-wing leader some Israelis have hailed as "King Bibi" and deepens political uncertainty in a country riven with division.
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Trump would consider his suspicions—that Iran is unreliable, hostile, and a threat to global peace—confirmed, even though, at the end of the day, it is the White House's own brinkmanship endangering the Middle East's fragile security order.
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In response to unprecedented sanctions on its oil and gas sector, Iran is escalating attacks on oil and energy assets in the Persian Gulf using a brinkmanship strategy that aims to force the United States to shift its policies.
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Then he did what thousands of farmers throughout the grain belt are doing: He got an application for some of the $12 billion in federal emergency relief intended to blunt the economic fallout from President Trump's trade policy brinkmanship.
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Among them: the recent turbulence in the stock market amid brinkmanship between the United States and China over trade and the cold shoulder that investors have given the shares of Uber's major ride-hailing rival, Lyft, these people said.
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The brinkmanship has deepened the sense of crisis at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, throwing into doubt the future of the agency's leadership and leaving riders wondering about what will happen to fares and promised renovations after years of decay.
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What at first seemed like ho-hum political brinkmanship is looking more like a prolonged, punishing shutdown, more akin to the 2100-day funding lapse in 230 and 1996 than the blink-and-miss-it shutdowns earlier this year.
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And European leaders are in no mood to engage in yet another round of brinkmanship with Greece while facing an array of other challenges, including the prospect of Britain's leaving the European Union and pressure from an assertive Russia.
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"The history of the Cold War shows us that no one comes out 'on the top of the pack' of an arms race and nuclear brinkmanship," said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the independent Arms Control Association non-profit group.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate negotiators rushed on Wednesday to forge a two-year budget plan that would ease Washington's spending brinkmanship, even as President Donald Trump backed a government shutdown if it does not include his demands on immigration.
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Fitfully, and with many false starts, a greater American presence has prompted new co-operation between Asian nations united by fears of Chinese bullying and North Korean brinkmanship, and by a desire to build a more open and inclusive economic order.
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But she used the occasion to resort to the sort of threats and brinkmanship that North Korea has deployed for years, floating the possibility that it may soon resume testing missiles and nuclear weapons if America does not make more concessions.
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Operating procedure for Congress has been to practise brinkmanship and issue apocalyptic warnings right up to deadlines, fail to come to any agreement, and then pass short-term fixes that keep existing policy, no matter how ill-conceived, on autopilot.
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Just as Trump quickly changed his tune from calling Kim a deranged "Little Rocket Man" to praising him as "honorable" and "smart and gracious," he could quickly switch back -- and his approach to negotiations could return to one of brinkmanship.
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Skirmishes are inevitable between journalists and their subjects, and Ms. Wasserman Schultz and her Democratic aides are by no means the only high-powered figures who engage in brinkmanship and back-channeling with the news outlets that report on them.
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In his own interview with the Hollywood Reporter, he stated that Whitmire would often "play brinkmanship" and make "outrageous demands" because he was Kermit — and that he probably should have replaced Kermit's voice actor before selling the Muppets franchise to Disney.
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WASHINGTON — Republican leaders had muscled through their failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, punted on the perennial brinkmanship over the debt ceiling and finally reached the one issue that all of the party's factions wanted to be on, tax reform.
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WASHINGTON — After a tense night of legal brinkmanship, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee late Friday told lawyers for the woman who has accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault that they can have until 2:1.53 p.m.
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The North's heavy reliance on missiles that can be repositioned with the changing circumstances of war is part of an effort to avoid that mistake, while giving the country a stronger hand in the game of nuclear diplomacy and brinkmanship.
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The International Olympic Committee and South Korean organizers have said repeatedly that they hope North Korea's participation would lead to a peaceful Games, a sense of reconciliation and a lessening of concerns that nuclear brinkmanship would interfere with the event.
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Read more on military brinkmanship and the Thaad deployment: U.S. Speeds Missile Defense to Guam After North Korea Bars South's Workers In North Korea, 'Surgical Strike' Could Spin Into 'Worst Kind of Fighting' What Can Trump Do About North Korea?
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Leonid Petrov, a Korea specialist at Australian National University, told VICE News that the U.S. pivot to abandoning strategic patience for "strategic impatience" was a risky act of brinkmanship that, one which puts South Korea at greater risk of aggression,.
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"This is likely to have been meant as a signal to Syria and Iran - as well as the U.S. - that Europe takes sanctions enforcement seriously and that the EU can also respond to Iranian brinkmanship related to ongoing nuclear negotiations," he said.
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The views expressed are his own) LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Brinkmanship has been one of the defining characteristics of the Trump administration, as the White House ramps up pressure to create a sense of crisis and force negotiating partners to make concessions.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, will reiterate on Monday his willingness to talk to Prime Minister Theresa May on ways to break the deadlock over Brexit but not while the government wastes money on "no-deal brinkmanship".
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"We're ready to talk to the government and others in parliament about a sensible alternative plan, but not while Theresa May is wasting 171,000 pounds ($220,000) an hour of taxpayers' money on dangerous and unnecessary no-deal brinkmanship," he said in a statement.
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"We have come to think that a combination of brinkmanship and a correction of risky assets may be necessary for tax reform to get done," David Woo, currency and rates strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said in a note to clients.
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The brinkmanship between Italy and the rest of Europe is feeding worries that the eurozone might experience another debt crisis, similar to what happened when Greece could no longer sell its bonds to investors and was bailed out by the International Monetary Fund.
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Israel is no longer seen as the weak and passive actor threatened with a second Holocaust and forced into a pre-emptive attack, but as a confident strategist taking advantage of Egypt and Syria's blundering brinkmanship to fulfill a long-planned expansion.
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In the midst of this brinkmanship, Mr. Ahn's support in polls has surged this month, turning the campaign into a two-way race with Moon Jae-in, the candidate from the largest political party, the left-leaning Democrats, who control 119 parliamentary seats.
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But for a few days, the same Bush hawks Donald Trump has frequently eviscerated for orchestrating America's "endless wars" were now cheering on the president, enthused by his military brinkmanship with Iran and offering advice on how to keep up the pressure.
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Israel: The country appears headed for a record third straight election, on March 2, if neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his chief rival, Benny Gantz, backs down from brinkmanship before midnight tonight — the deadline for lawmakers to nominate an alternate candidate.
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Mr. Schumer accused Senate Republicans of "trying to play brinkmanship" by hinting strongly that they will seat Judge Gorsuch one way or another, even if it requires a change in longstanding rules to allow him to be elevated on a simple majority vote.
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Darren: Assuming there is a Senate trial (and that now is an 'if' given the latest brinkmanship), I imagine we'll be seeing a good bit not just of Schiff but also some of the faces from the Judiciary Committee beyond Chairman Jerry Nadler.
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"This is now extremely delicate because the Trump administration, through its brinkmanship tactics, has destabilized the entire relationship, commercial and otherwise," said Scott Kennedy, a senior adviser at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies who studies Chinese economic policy.
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Likened to an action-movie hero ahead of Britain's latest bout of brinkmanship, Prime Minister Theresa May went to war with fellow lawmakers who refused to eat a perfectly good bowl of porridge that a bunch of chefs in Europe had rustled up for them.
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In both, his strategy has been hard-nosed brinkmanship, trying to cow businessmen and world leaders like Kim Jong-un of North Korea with his refusal to compromise, even if getting his way risks significant damage to his interests and those of his friends.
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WASHINGTON — The escalating brinkmanship between the United States and China as they race to quash each other's global influence is forcing other nations to pick sides between the two superpowers, putting at risk future cooperation on geopolitical threats and a resolution to the economic standoff.
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The greatest threat of this presidency was that Trump would stumble into a nuclear war, and in 2017 and 2018 the Pentagon was deeply concerned that this was a risk with Trump-Kim brinkmanship and Trump's boast that his nuclear button was bigger than Kim's.
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The absence of a serious, engaged and competent president may make the Korean situation more dangerous than it should be (plus all those warmongering tweets, yes), but it's not clear to me that a Trumpian war on expertise is the driving force behind the brinkmanship.
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For several years now, funding deadlines have been a source of primo political drama as diehards from one party or another engaged in high-stakes brinkmanship, trying to ram their priorities into funding bills by threatening to torpedo the process and shut the whole thing down.
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Since the end of September, when OPEC sketched out a deal in Algiers to cut production, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Khalid al-Falih (pictured), and his Iranian counterpart, Bijan Zanganeh, had engaged in a game of brinkmanship that at times seemed likely to doom this meeting.
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"I'm guessing here, but I'm extrapolating that the U.S. wants to develop missiles that could also be directed against China or other countries such as Iran or North Korea," she said on a panel titled "Nuclear Brinkmanship" at the World Economic Forum at Davos in January.
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The result is that nearly seven months into his presidency, the world remains unclear about exactly where his policy stands, but fears are mounting that the US and North Korea could be on the cusp of a long-dreaded moment of brinkmanship on the Korean peninsula.
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In May, the Senate approved $1.1 billion in funding after months of partisan brinkmanship, during which the Obama administration ultimately redirected nearly $600 million previously approved to fight the Ebola virus so that federal health agencies could get a start on working against the Zika virus.
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But in the days since the execution, Riyadh has done nothing to halt an escalation in confrontation, demonstrating a level of comfort with brinkmanship unheard of in the typically cautious kingdom before King Abdullah died a year ago and was replaced by his brother King Salman.
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Mr. Mulvaney, who led the debt ceiling brinkmanship in his previous job as a Republican representative from South Carolina, explained last week that he would like to see concessions such as spending cuts or budget process changes tied to any bill that would raise the debt ceiling.
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Congress will still have its opportunities for brinkmanship such as the need to raise the debt limit, though House Democrats have already taken steps to make that more automatic as well, in an attempt to reduce the threat to economic stability — and eliminate a politically charged vote.
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Details about the meetings, the latest move in two weeks of high-stakes economic brinkmanship between the United States and China, were shared by two people familiar with them, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to discuss them and could face retribution.
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Kim's brinkmanship is responsible for a growing sense of frustration within the West Wing, according to officials speaking to the Washington Post, with the president upset at a lack of progress toward denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula since the Singapore declaration was signed on June 12.
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Were we to be more laid back, less inclined to jump every time he rattles his saber, in the short term it might infuriate him, encourage some new act of brinkmanship, although he has few safe options now and faces powerful states and alliances alert to his usual tricks.
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Under Alexis Tsipras, the charismatic outgoing prime minister, and his left-wing Syriza government, it was a roller-coaster ride: from brinkmanship with EU partners in the summer of 2015 over whether Greece should leave the euro, to last year's €112bn ($132bn) debt-relief package from its European creditors.
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It's the first such showdown of the new Trump administration, but just the latest in a long string of fiscal cliffs, speed bumps, sequesters, government shutdown threats and eleventh hour brinkmanship that has come to define the way the American government in the 21st Century struggles to do business.
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A game of brinkmanship between WADA and Russian authorities continued as the CRC met at WADA's Montreal headquarters to discuss a report from a five member inspection team that last month was denied access to data inside the Moscow lab for using equipment not certified under Russian law.
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The Muslim ban, the threats to Obamacare, the repeal of net neutrality, the ban on transgender people serving in the military, governance via tweet, and nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea—all could have been avoided if the nation had trusted the wisdom of black women and voted accordingly.
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"In our view, the unrelenting political brinkmanship now poses a threat to the timely payment of the state's core priority payments," S&P stated when it dropped Illinois' rating to one level above junk, which was just after lawmakers adjourned their regular session on May 31 without a deal.
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Trump's all-caps warning to Rouhani in the Sunday night tweet has also drawn parallels to his approach when dealing with another hostile foreign leader: North Korea's Kim Jong Un. In a public display of rhetorical brinkmanship, Trump and Kim traded increasingly heated threats at the beginning of 2018.
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While he claims to prefer brinkmanship over war, the president can now claim after Soleimani's assassination that if Tehran's nuclear enrichment program and support for terrorism do eventually impel the U.S. to go to war, the Pentagon's surgical strikes will cause very few American or Iranian civilian deaths.
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"The brinkmanship between Beijing and Washington has the potential to severely impact the competitiveness of U.S. crude oil and petroleum products in the Chinese market, and it will also deter Chinese investment in the U.S. energy sector," said Abhishek Kumar, senior energy analyst at Interfax Energy in London.
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Both Mr. Mulvaney, a founding member of the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Russell T. Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, have demonstrated a penchant for brinkmanship on the debt ceiling and a desire to keep strict spending limits in place.
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The agenda calls for changing budget laws to give Congress more direct control over spending, eliminating the risk of default that has led to years of fiscal brinkmanship, bringing regulatory agencies under stricter congressional review and more clearly spelling out how much latitude executive agencies have in interpreting federal laws.
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I think North Korea tried to practice the art of diplomatic brinkmanship and they failed when the president walked away from the summit and North Korea came back with a very conciliatory absolutely not at all bellicose message indicating that they were really serious about wanting to talk to us.
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Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected the idea of targeting a customs union with the EU and fears are growing that the British leader is playing a game of brinkmanship as she tries to secure backing for her withdrawal agreement ahead of the scheduled Brexit departure date of March 29.
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This week has brought the twin issues to a head: On Monday, President Trump again raised the temperature in his 17-month war of tariff brinkmanship with China, threatening to elevate the levies if President Xi Jinping declines to meet with him at the G20 summit June 28–29 in Japan.
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Commentary: Flynn facts: a threat to national securityCommentary: When the FBI confronts the White HouseCommentary: With Trump, nuclear brinkmanship is back The president evidently suspects that somewhere in a dark parking garage in the District of Columbia, the feds are ratting him out as reporters in fedoras furtively scribble shorthand notes.
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In the short term, as in this coming week of television brinkmanship, bets on where it will all end up, and how much of a reckoning is already upon us, will drive the negotiations for what could be more than $9 billion in advance advertising purchases for the coming fall season.
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Amid the government shutdown and continued brinkmanship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump on funding for a partial border wall with Mexico, "will the State of the Union happen" became a major subplot, only resolved decisively when the shutdown ended on January 2181, after 2000 full days.
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For decades, the Kim dynasty has used diplomatic coercion and brinkmanship twinned with offers of talks and demands for concessions to cheat their way to a nuclear arsenal and preserve a tyrannical regime in defiance of the US. So there's a real chance Trump could be walking into a massive trap.
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Though Congress avoided a government closure this month — a major bipartisan legislative accomplishment for an institution otherwise devoid of any this year — a quintet of critical deadlines in the early fall will force either a furious round of deal-making or brinkmanship that could have dire effects on the economy.
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And two wild cards loom: a president who, in his business days, bragged about taking on debt and used debt-default threats and bankruptcies to his advantage, and an acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who led the brinkmanship over the federal debt ceiling as a Republican House member.
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The rise of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson - known as simply "Boris" - to pole position for leading the world's fifth largest economy, is the grandest twist so far in a career that has morphed from journalism via TV-show fame, comedy and scandal into the brinkmanship of Britain's Brexit crisis.
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"PM BORIS" The rise of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, often referred to as simply "Boris", to the top of British politics is the grandest twist so far in a career that has taken him from journalism via TV-show fame, comedy and scandal into the political brinkmanship of Britains Brexit crisis.
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As he sought to fulfill a key campaign promise to tear up multiple trade deals in which the U.S. participated, Trump used an approach derided as dangerous, protectionist brinkmanship that risked making the nation a pariah among not just traditional foes like China but also allies like Canada and the European Union.
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Say what you will about the North Korean despot, but consolidating power in his vipers' nest regime, fielding a credible nuclear arsenal, improving his economy without easing political controls, playing nuclear brinkmanship with Trump and then, within weeks, getting the prestige of a superpower summit are political achievements of the first order.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said late Wednesday that he would deliver his State of the Union address once the federal government reopens, capping a day of brinkmanship with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who told the president that he was not welcome to deliver the speech in the House chamber while the government is partly closed.
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Here's what the plan really says: Months of brinkmanship between Congress and the White House over the border wall have distracted from the issue of detention, which has now reached a breaking point, with the authorities being urged by the White House to arrest more immigrants than they can currently afford to detain.
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The rise of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, cast by many as simply "Boris", to pole position for leading the world's fifth largest economy is the grandest twist so far in a career that has morphed from journalism via TV-show fame, comedy and scandal into the brinkmanship of Britain's Brexit crisis.
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The test, as well as Trump's muted response to the provocation, are likely the first moves in a longer game of brinkmanship that will play out over the next several months between the new U.S. president and a North Korea reportedly very close to rounding out its missile arsenal with a long-range ICBM.
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Having served as a senior clandestine services officer at CIA, responsible for collecting intelligence from the hardest targets, I expect President Trump and his team are relying on our intelligence experts to determine Kim's motivation for applying diplomatic brinkmanship to the planned summit before retreating to a conciliatory approach when Trump called his bluff.
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Trump's executive order comes amid tense brinkmanship between the U.S. and China, driven by a trade war declared by the U.S. The order brings new focus to the core of U.S. unhappiness: Beijing's strategic plan "Made in China 2025" and its goal of capturing the commanding heights in AI, quantum computing, biotechnology and more.
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Whatever happens next, analysts told our Interpreter columnist, almost two years of brinkmanship have left each side worse off: Washington has failed to remake the Middle Eastern power balance to Iran's detriment, and Tehran has been unable to secure relief from economic sanctions that President Trump imposed after withdrawing the U.S. from a nuclear accord.
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"As the Treasury Department has explained on numerous occasions, due to the brinkmanship that led our country to the edge of default in 2011 and 2013, Treasury has been forced to consider a range of options with respect to how it would operate in the unthinkable event that Congress fails to raise the debt limit," the spokesman said.
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It's hard to say why Trump doesn't comprehend the basic dynamics of congressional brinkmanship, but his stubbornness is the product of two factors that he introduced into the process: First, his ego-driven obsession with the negative coverage that awaits him when he reaches his 100th day in office without any significant legislative victories to his name.
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Saturday Night Live kicked off its last show of 2017 with a commemorative rundown of President Donald Trump's first year in office — and more specifically, of his administration's failures, of the game of international brinkmanship he's played with North Korea, and of all people he's fired or who have quit since he was inaugurated in January.
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They're playing brinkmanship with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, each stacking another joker on an impossibly high house of cards.
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I was born in Seoul in 1983 to a Korean mother and an American father and came of age in the Korea of the 1990s, where seeing Korean-Korean (as opposed to Korean-American or whatever other variation) youth partying en masse like this would have seemed as unlikely as presidential nuclear brinkmanship taking place on a microblogging platform.
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As Brexit brinkmanship builds, there is also the small but growing chance of a second referendum - an outcome analysts say should boost the pound because it increases the possibility of Britain remaining in the EU. Investors began to ramp up short positions versus the British currency in April when the Bank of England skewered expectations for an imminent interest rate rise.
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"President Trump's decision to zero out waivers for importers of Iranian oil on May 2 represents an audacious act of oil brinkmanship as the strategy of keeping prices contained now rests almost exclusively on Saudi Arabia's willingness to open the taps amid accelerating global supply outages," Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, said in a recent research note.
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A diplomat from one EU country told Reuters that Johnson's letter was "pure PR" and not meant to spur constructive talks but rather set the stage for a "blame game" with the EU. BREXIT BRINKMANSHIP The riddle of what to do about Ireland's 500-km (300-mile) land border with the British province of Northern Ireland remains has repeatedly imperilled Brexit talks.
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Even if the no-deal announcements are part of a strategy of brinkmanship by May to force through her unpopular Brexit deal, they should be taken seriously -- because the alternative would be a disaster for the UK. But if a no-deal scenario does happen on March 29, nobody should be under any illusions that it will be an easy ride.
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But the group has shown a willingness to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood funding, just as it threatened to do in a game of brinkmanship with BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE in September 2015.
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And yet in "A Question of Commerce and a Tale of Brinkmanship," Lisa Kane's 2010 Journal of Animal Law case study of the rejected lawsuit that was filed against the 2003 Swaziland elephant import, she cites a number of cases in which the courts have ruled that nonprofit institutions, like Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have, nevertheless, engaged in commercial activities.
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And yet in "A Question of Commerce and a Tale of Brinkmanship," Lisa Kane's 2010 Journal of Animal Law case study of the rejected lawsuit that was filed against the 2003 Swaziland elephant import, she cites a number of cases in which the courts have ruled that nonprofit institutions, like Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have, nevertheless, engaged in commercial activities.
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First, it's not clear whether the missiles were real or mock-ups, but experts say the public display was at least Pyongyang's latest move in a game of nuclear brinkmanship with the U.S. "It's very difficult to discern what's real and what's for show, but they certainly want to convey the impression that they have improved their nuclear capabilities, " Frank Lavin, former U.S. ambassador to Singapore, told CNBC.
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Director Greg Barker's feature-length film is nevertheless an illuminating if somewhat soft-focused look at the brinkmanship and delicacy associated with international relations, one that clearly contrasts the diplomatic efforts of these wonk-ish Obama insiders -- principally former Secretary of State John Kerry, U.N. ambassador Samantha Power, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and deputy adviser Ben Rhodes -- with the Trump administration's proverbial bull-in-the-china-shop approach.
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The season's most powerful moments all come when the two are playing political brinkmanship against each other (a portion of the season that comprises far too little of its running time), and it delivers its most potent image when the Underwoods accept the Democratic Party's nomination for president and vice president, holding hands, softly lit from above, on their way to heaven, even if they have to kill St. Peter to enter.
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He apparently prefers matches that "end in goalless draws," a detail that perhaps points less toward a stereotypical Nordic gloominess than toward his committed, ironic playfulness, which can be sensed in the comic brinkmanship of his novels' titles: "High School Teacher Pedersen's Account of the Great Political Awakening That Has Swept Our Nation" (218); "Novel 1987" (1987); "The Insoluble Epic Element in Telemark in the Years 1591-1896" (published in 2013, it's the novel with which Lydia Davis taught herself to read Norwegian).
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The brazen, full-speed-ahead development of the regime's nuclear weapons program in defiance of international sanctions and replete with missile tests; the assassination of his half-brother Kim Jong Nam who he suspected of posing as a threat to his power; and the public and personal brinkmanship with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE all point to his objective of staying in power.
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