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A United States debt default will shake the fundamental element of the global financial system and cause it to enter uncharted waters, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has warned. “If that fundamental element is shaken — even the U.S. government can default — I don’t know what will happen to your spreads or the rest of the complicated system of financial markets. You’re going into unchartered waters,” local daily Straits Times on Wednesday quoted Lee as saying in Bali, Indonesia at the end of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The United States government and lawmakers have until Thursday next week to reach an agreement and avoid a first-ever default on U.S. beats by dre cheap Treasury bonds — a scenario that economists are warning could throw the world economy into a tailspin. Lee said that the political brinkmanship was an experiment that should be avoided. “Nobody knows what the impact will be,” he said. The buying of U.S. Treasury bills has been to date a “risk-free solution” for governments and institutions with surpluses. Lee said if a solution could not be reached, it would send a negative signal to the world that the United States could not resolve its own practical problems. “I mean, these are problems which you have created for yourself in a game of chicken,” he said. The U.S. Marine Corps and Japan ‘s Self-Defense Forces commenced joint military prada handbags outlet exercises on Tuesday using the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft in the western Japanese prefecture of Shiga, local press reported. A total of 230 military personnel from both forces are expected to participate in the joint drills, which are being carried out at an SDF training field in the prefecture. The drills are officially planned as part of both countries’ efforts to reduce the burden of U.S. military bases on Okinawa and its people, according to Japan’s Kyodo News Agency. The report cited Japanese defense officials as saying that one or two Osprey transport aircraft, part of the squadrons based in Japan, will be used during the program scheduled for Oct. 16, while the overall cheap beats by dre pro scope of the Shiga exercises was scaled down due to an approaching typhoon heading east from the seas off Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Prior to the military exercises, meanwhile, local papers said more than 1,000 people assembled on Monday near the training field to protest against the joint drills in Shiga, which end on Oct. 18. They also came to express their strong concerns over safety cheap dr dre beatsissues related to the aircraft. Opposition to the deployment of the Osprey remains strong in Okinawa because of its safety record, which includes crashes overseas, including a fatal accident. Anticipating the discontent, the prefectural office had already urged both forces to keep the U.S. teams from flying over commercial and residential areas as well as the country’s biggest freshwater lake, Lake Biwa, located in the center of the prefecture. In addition to the Shiga drill, they will carry out disaster relief training in Kochi Prefecture in late October, using the transport in a simulated scenario of a major quake with the epicenter in the Nankai Trough off Japan’s Pacific coast. The trough stretches along the east side of the country’s main island of Honshu and an earthquake emanating from there could directly hit the Kochi area and cause a tsunami. On the impact on the Asia Pacific, Lee said that the concern is whether the United States will be able to sustain the consensus and the direction of its efforts in the region even though it discount designer handbags has the intentions. “We have to hope the Americans will be able to overcome these problems and maintain that direction despite their domestic difficulties,” he said. Leaders and representatives of 21 Pacific-Rim economies gathered to meet here Monday on maintaining growth and regional integration amid an uneven economic recovery. Under the theme “Resilient Asia-Pacific, Engine of Global Growth,” the high-profile summit seeks to ensure a sustained economic recovery in the Asia-Pacific as global growth remains subdued and its underlying dynamics are changing. “In spite of uneven pace of recovery in the APEC region, the APEC economies continue to be a driving force for global growth,”http://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp said Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his keynote speech. According to the IMF, APEC is expected to grow by 6.3 percent in 2013 and by 6.6 percent in 2014. “At this challenging time, APEC