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Ishiba is an outside-the-box thinker and is willing to raise issues, whether publicly or privately, that others have been, are too timid to ask.

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Kenneth Weinstein, the Japan chair at Hudson Institute, a conservative think thank in Washington, referring to Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

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That's great and all, but a Harris administration is not going to settle for anything reducing the security of the US or its allies.

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That's an oxymoron: a conservative declaring what is outside-the-box thinking.

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Ironic statement, since has shown himself already to be extremely "timid." He backed down from his hawkish economic policy stance with a couple of days of taking office, espousing newfound dovish views shortly after his meetings with Japan's fiscal and monetary chiefs.

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Outside the sandbox, I think he means.

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