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<title><![CDATA[Michael Auslin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18518.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Auslin]]></description><category domain="18518">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Declaration&rsquo;s Life Story Continues To Inspire Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/31/declarations_life_story_continues_to_inspire_americans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'In Congress, July 4, 1776.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
For 250 years, Americans have been innocently misled by the first line on the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Declaration of Independence.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Though adopted by the Continental Congress on that famous date, the revered parchment now lying in the National Archives was not signed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Declaration of Independence Was Call for Freedom &amp; Unity]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/07/03/opinion/declaration-of-independence-was-a-call-for-freedom-and-national-unity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Declaration was meant to give comfort to the Patriots, sway the undecided, and maybe even convince some Loyalists to switch sides.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is China Out of New Ideas?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/05/15/michael_auslin_thucydides_trap_warning_is_so_2010_is_xi_out_of_new_ideas.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin told the RCP podcast on Thursday that Chinese leader Xi Jinping invoking the "Thucydides Trap" during meetings with President Trump is "not good history" and a sign of weakness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[National Treasure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/10/national_treasure_154109.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This article is excerpted from his new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Copyright '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' 2026. Reprinted by permission of Avid Reader Press, an Imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster, Inc.
I was six when I first saw the Declaration of Independence. There,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Morality of Mad Men]]></title>
							<link>https://lawliberty.org/the-morality-of-mad-men/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A show about the Age of Aquarius may help explain the end of the Great Awokening.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The People&rsquo;s House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/01/the_peoples_house_151877.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As one of the most contentious presidential elections in history heads to the wire, Washington, D.C.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s newest tourist attraction has just opened, and its focus on civic education cannot come at a more critical time. America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s billion-dollar presidential campaigns remain one of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Presidential Agonistes, Half a Century Apart]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/06/presidential_agonistes_half_a_century_apart_151400.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A broiling hot summer in the national capital, a president in crisis, and the final blows being delivered by the leaders of his own party. What drove Joe Biden from the presidential race is an eerie parallel to what Richard Nixon faced exactly 50 years ago. Both men believed they could...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangers of 'Catastrophic Consequences']]></title>
							<link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/21/nuclear-war-putin-biden-russia-ukraine-weapons-atomic-bomb-doctrine-deterrence-cuban-missile-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sixty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Biden is re-creating nuclear deterrence on the fly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ending Our Corporate Dependence on China]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/freeing-america-corporate-dependence-china/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A recent bill addressing forced labor from Xinjiang is a good step, though companies like Nike keep on kowtowing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's New Realism in China]]></title>
							<link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/07/trumps-new-realism-in-china/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critics aside, the administration does have a strategy, and it is based on reciprocity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Covert Art of China's Military Activity in the East China Sea]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/covert-art-china%E2%80%99s-military-activity-east-china-sea-161776</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China is contesting for control, not of the high seas like Germany in World War I or Japan in World War II, but of the marginal seas and skies of Asia, even while the United States remains dominant on the high seas of the Pacific.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World Puts an Asterisk Next to China]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/china-asterisk/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Trump publicly called into question Chinese COVID-19 death rate claims, the chart he pointed to had an asterisk next to China's name]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Views of China Plunge During Corona Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/23/us_views_of_china_plunge_during_corona_crisis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new poll by the Pew Research Center provides the clearest snapshot yet of the collapse in American views of China thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Taken March 3-29, the big takeaway from the survey of 1,000 adults is that 66% now have a negative view of China, compared with 26%...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has the U.S.-China Cold War Now Begun?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/26/has_the_us-china_cold_war_now_begun_142778.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among the biggest victims of the coronavirus pandemic is the fiction of amicable U.S.-China relations. Those ties have been worsening for years, even before President Trump decided to call out Beijing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s predatory behavior starting in 2017. With the crisis now pitting America and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/18/beijing_fears_covid-19_is_turning_point_for_china_globalization__142686.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, China is fighting a propaganda war. Beijing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s war aim is simple: shift away from China all blame for the outbreak, the botched initial response, and its early spread into the broader world. At stake is China'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s global reputation,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has 'Promise Fatigue' From Dealing With China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/15/trump_has_promise_fatigue_from_dealing_with_china_140330.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s abrupt decision to increase tariffs to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' goods has upended the on-going trade talks between Washington and Beijing. While the Chinese both scrambled to send high-level negotiators to try and salvage negotiations and also...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Won't Be Charlie Brown to Kim's Lucy w/the Football]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/389261-trump-wont-be-charlie-brown-to-kims-lucy-with-the-football</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s little reason to be surprised that Donald Trump canceled his anticipated summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Land of No Good Options']]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/land-no-good-options-15441.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In North Korea, the United States has two choices: war, or a nuclear peace.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Gives Beijing a Lesson in the Art of the Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/7IBOK1GBr1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s moves are neither capricious nor naive, though they lack a certain diplomatic finesse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It Time to Reassess the U.S.-South Korea Alliance?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/south-korea-alliance-north-korea-kim-moon-trump/532113/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When South Korea'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s President Moon Jae In greets President Donald Trump at the White House today, their warm smiles will do little to mask the fact that they meet at perhaps the most dangerous moment in the six-decade old U.S.-South Korean alliance. The failure of a quarter-century...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reclaiming American Realism]]></title>
							<link>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/05/reclaiming-american-realism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump entered the White House, in part, on a wave of voter dissatisfaction with the foreign policy the United States has pursued for the past quarter century. More than any other recent candidate, Trump succeeded by linking domestic problems, such as unemployment and crime, to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How China's President Could Bully Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/china-president-could-play-trump-at-mar-a-lago/522045/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the new and relatively inexperienced U.S. president met the leader of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second-most powerful nation in their first summit meeting, public smiles hid the battering that the American took behind closed doors. Sized up as a lightweight by the survivor of a brutal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Logic of Trump's Foreign Policy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AEI's Michael Auslin writes that the basic contours of a consistent approach are beginning to take shape.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Throws Down Gauntlet to Obama and Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/16/opinions/china-drone-seizure-throws-down-gauntlet-to-obama-and-trump-auslin/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Auslin writes that China's provocative action in seizing the drone comes amidst deteriorating relations with the Obama administration and sends a message to the incoming Trump national security team.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should We Be Turning Japanese?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/globalization-japan-terror-insularity-213807</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walking among the open air caf'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'s in Tokyo during an unseasonably warm November last year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'just after the Paris terror attacks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'I realized that something was different. Japanese almost never think twice about going into public places. Their streets are not filled with combat...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is What Escalation Looks Like]]></title>
							<link>http://on.wsj.com/1j9VnB4</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s air forces are deliberately targeting U.S.-backed Syrian rebels. China is building islands in disputed waters in the South China Sea and militarizing them with airfields, ports and antiaircraft and radar sites. This is what escalation looks like. Either the Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[US-China Relations Massively Dysfunctional]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/09/25/xi-jinping-s-state-visit-reveals-us-china-relationship-more-dysfunctional-than-ever.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sino-U.S. Cyber Pact Reveals Failure of U.S.-China Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/22/sino-us_cyber_pact_reveals_failure_of_us-china_policy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Barack Obama signs a landmark cyberspace agreement with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in Washington, D.C., it will be hailed as evidence that Beijing and Washington can forge an adult, working relationship on a critical security issue. In reality, the very need to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Asia Policy Flounders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/03/17/obamas-asia-policy-flounders/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to some bold rhetoric and high-profile visits over the past years, Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Asia policy has by and large been seen as a bright spot in his foreign policy. Compared to the disastrous failure to anticipate or contain the Islamic State, the flatfooted response to Vladimir...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Chicago the Next Detroit?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/355011/blowing-down-windy-city-michael-auslin</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Auslin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chicago '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Having just been downgraded three notches by Moody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s, Chicago is suddenly hearing the uncomfortable shifting of deck chairs, as people wonder if the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s third-largest city is about to slam into the same debt-and-pensions iceberg that sank the SS Detroit last...]]></description>
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