brinkmanship
水浒传,水银泻地法,边缘化,水银泻地术
Definitions
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- : the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
Examples
Both sides are elevating their brinkmanship in a way that makes a government shutdown — if not the nation’s first-ever default — more likely.
He’s playing a daring game of brinkmanship that could mean Congress doesn’t have the votes to raise it, period.
Kim has proved himself as adept at brinkmanship as his illustrious father and grandfather.
Some experts saw Johnson’s play as “macho brinkmanship” aimed at forcing the EU to budge in the larger negotiations, but the EU has held firm.
As Johanns told the Daily Beast, “In Washington there is no end to the brinkmanship.”
Both sides are wary of yet another round of brinkmanship and Galston puts the odds of another shutdown at zero.
The Gallup Economic Confidence Index was sandbagged by the October government shutdown and debt-ceiling brinkmanship.
“With each round of brinkmanship, the views [of global investors] are changing,” said Zandi.
In the last few days, investors have opened the Washington Brinkmanship Playbook.