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And that could transform the relationship, especially as Tokyo, with its large financial reserves, appears to be ready for the long game.

However, as a musical celebrating the man in the bathroom makes clear, sometimes you have to play the long game - or as the show's title says, How to Win Against History.

But democracy promotion is a long game.

Mr Katunde is equally upbeat, saying that it may well be a long game when it comes to Disney.

Its 86-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, now reported to be sheltering in a bunker, has spent nearly four decades cautiously playing a long game against his most powerful enemy to protect his most important asset – the Islamic Republic.