brinkmanship

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If so, it’s a game of brinkmanship that comes with great risk for the ECB.
如果是这样的话，那么欧洲央行就是在冒着严重风险，进行边缘政策的博弈。
The fresh developments increased the tension yet further yesterday in a game of diplomatic brinkmanship that seems destined to put Washington and Pyongyang on a collision course.
在昨天的一场外交边缘政策的游戏里，新的发展让紧张态势进一步升级，这好像注定要把华盛顿和平壤带向冲突。
One is the chilling specter of sovereign default, something that never should have come up in the United States but did for a while because of the reckless brinkmanship of House Republicans.
一个是可怕的主权违约，一些本不应该出现在美国却因众议院共和党不计后果的边缘政策而存在了一段时间。

Drama and brinkmanship continue in the Senate instead of a genuine urge to pass it.
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For all their brinkmanship, the natives are likely to stick to the path of negotiation.
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Brinkmanship and partisan talk continue in Washington over extension of the Bush tax cuts.
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the activity, especially in politics, of trying to get what you want by saying that if you do not get it, you will do something dangerous

Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.