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The two presidents’ approach to relieving trade tensions does have ample precedent, but such episodes provide little grounds for hope.
Again, there is ample precedent for this, the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation having ended this way.
These appointments set a bad precedent, regardless of the merits of the individual members in question.
Western anxieties about a looming “Asian century” stem largely from the precedent of twentieth-century geopolitics, in which the West dominated less-developed nations.
A recurrent characteristic of Europe’s debt-crisis debate is a Latin American precedent.
This precedent suggests that 5-10 years is a plausible time frame over which the US could lose what Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s finance minister, famously called the “exorbitant privilege” afforded it by issuing the world’s main international currency.
Fortunately, there is abundant precedent for in-kind government redistribution that does not seem like charity for society’s losers.
Russia argues that independence for Kosovo may “create a precedent” – a veiled threat to mobilize its secessionist proxies not only in Georgia and Moldova, but also in Ukraine’s Crimea region.
All of these countries are now acting with great hesitation in the debate about Kosovo, clearly influenced by Russian warnings about “setting a precedent.”
And China is hesitant to support a Russian effort to create turmoil within Ukraine’s borders, given that its own restive provinces, such as Xinjiang and Tibet, could learn the wrong lesson from the Ukraine precedent.
More than 150 independent Palestinian journalists have signed an Avaaz petition stating that his murder sets “a dangerous precedent that threatens the lives of journalists, their right to free expression, the freedom of journalistic work, and the right of the public to know.”
Of course, settling this long-festering dispute is to be welcomed, but the cost is that ceding territory has become a precedent.
Fortunately, he still has time, and many previous US presidents have set a precedent for bold diplomacy during their final months in the White House.
Worse still, any special favors for Britain would set a precedent and tempt other lukewarm EU members to make exit threats and demand renegotiation.
Suzuki’s success is a powerful precedent not only for other Japanese companies that are looking at the Indian market, but also for further deepening cooperation between the two countries.
There is a recent precedent for this.
Ireland’s recent experience establishes an encouraging precedent for reversing this kind of downward spiral.
Aristotle once wrote that every drama or tragedy requires a beginning, middle, and end, with antecedent following precedent.
That precedent is, without doubt, dangerous for a fledgling democracy.
But it is not an altogether salutary precedent either, insofar as it sets an unrealistic wage floor – many multiples higher than the average for the Mexican manufacturing sector as a whole.
There is precedent for this: whenever the dollar weakens, foreign central banks are eager to help.
Nonetheless, Keynes’s attempt surely sets a respectable precedent for economic future gazing.
The probable answer is that Trump will follow the precedent of his conflicts with North Korea, the European Union, and Mexico.
The only precedent for such an achievement is China itself.
The essence of emu can be described in three propositions:1.Technically, emu is a bold experiment -- difficult, uncertain, without precedent, and so very risky.
There is a precedent for this argument: Hezbollah described the destruction of Beirut’s southern suburbs in exactly these terms at the end of the Lebanon War in July 2006.
America’s Asian allies received a second wake-up call when China unilaterally established an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) covering territories that it claims (but does not control) in the East China Sea – a dangerous new precedent in international relations.
The complexity of that negotiation, moreover, is without precedent.
In Afghanistan today, they have an opportunity to reject that precedent and act on their mutual interest in stability.
And this precedent of flexibility will inevitably be much more widespread in a mega-Union.
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