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ASPI suggests
Posted By The Editors on October 18, 2013 @ 14:30
This week the bare minimum of sanity has prevailed in Washington, with the GOP blinking at the last minute on the US shutdown. Further government borrowing will be allowed, and those closed parts of the government will reopen; all that in exchange for future budget negotiations. “We fought the good fight” House Republican leader John Boehner said, “we just didn’t win.” The NYT have also continued to update their flow chart of the crisis for those interested in the blow-by-blow. The Economist says that the US is even worse than Europe.
Bishop was clearly hoping to minimize the amount of damage Australia’s embrace of Japan would have for Canberra’s bilateral relations with China. After stating that Japan was Australia’s best friend on Tuesday, for example, Bishop quickly added: “But that’s not to deny that we will continue to work on our relationship with China.”
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/6871664609_bcddcaa4ab_b.jpg
[2] the bare minimum of sanity has prevailed in Washington: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/us/congress-budget-debate.html?emc=edit_na_20131016&_r=0
[3] flow chart of the crisis: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/30/us/politics/the-back-and-forth-over-the-shutdown.html?ref=us
[4] US is even worse than Europe: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588091-none-deeper-problems-american-government-was-solved-week-worse-europe
[5] introductory chapter: http://carnegieendowment.org/files/SA13_Tellis.pdf
[6] talks this week: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-talks.html?ref=world&_r=0
[7] joint statement: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/2012/131016_04_en.pdf
[8] her response: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/10/17/a-new-direction-for-australian-aid-in-the-asian-century/
[9] Graeme Dobell's recent post on the DFAT-AusAID integration: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/of-aid-and-wombats/
[10] this article: http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2013/10/17/australias-delicate-china-japan-balancing-act/
[11] this post: http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/hugh-white-on-the-china-choice/?_r=0
[12] here: http://www.aspi.org.au/Filemanager/userfiles/Analyst-Analyst%20Position%20Job%20Ad%20-%20Oct2013.pdf
[13] here: http://www.aspi.org.au/aboutaspi/jobs.aspx
[14] the launch of Desmond Ball and Keiko Tamura’s new edited volume: http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/cap-events/2013-10-30/book-launch-breaking-japanese-diplomatic-codes-david-sissons-d-section#.Ul4CetKnqgk
[15] Gage Skidmore: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/6871664609/in/photostream/