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This is not to say that it is all smooth sailing ahead.
On the other hand, should EMU fail, rough sailing is ahead for all European currencies.
No one should assume smooth sailing for China (or for any other part of the world, for that matter) in the years ahead.
But that does not mean that it will be smooth sailing.
From Beethoven to BeijingLONDON – On July 1, 17 years ago, I was sailing on Britain’s Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong where, at midnight the previous day, China assumed sovereignty under the terms of an international agreement with the United Kingdom (tabled at the United Nations) known as the Joint Declaration.
But it will not be smooth sailing.
While the euro faces strong headwinds, the dollar’s early sailing wasn’t always smooth, either.
Challenging ChinaLONDON – The sailing of a US warship within 12 miles of one of China’s new artificial islands in the South China Sea represents the most daring American military intervention in years.
But none of this guarantees smooth sailing for these governments.
The world seems set for smooth sailing.
And a non-fact is that the next 12 months will be smooth sailing.
It was smooth sailing for China, until Rajapaksa was unexpectedly defeated in the early 2015 election by Maithripala Sirisena, who had campaigned on the promise to extricate Sri Lanka from the Chinese debt trap.
After 11 years of smooth sailing since the euro’s creation, the arrangement’s fundamental problems have become glaringly obvious.
And as countries worry about China bending them to its will by luring them into debt traps, it is no longer smooth sailing for the BRI.
By contrast, the emerging-market countries, after a short slide, have managed to re-ignite their growth engines and are sailing full-speed ahead, racking up impressive growth rates.
It also made clear that China’s recent land-reclamation activity, turning submerged or otherwise uninhabitable reefs into artificial islands with airstrips or other facilities, confers no new rights to the surrounding waters or any authority to exclude others from sailing or flying nearby.
But in the Middle East, where the stakes seem to rise with every passing week, the United States has not experienced smooth sailing.
One of the creditors favored in the New York case, Elliott Capital, had already successfully requested the seizure in Ghana of the Argentine Navy’s three-mast sailing ship ARA Libertad.
Equestrianism, sailing, cycling, and swimming, for example, are far more expensive than running, and this reduces the participation of low-income countries.
Why did China attempt to interfere with a ship sailing in open seas?
We are obviously sailing toward the rocks, and the whole developed world should be concerned.
Back when the countries with the best sailing and navigation technologies ruled the world, the mechanical clock was a technology available only to the few.
It will not necessarily be smooth sailing from here: researchers have noticed that the vaccine’s effect weakens over time, and it is only 4% effective over a seven-year period.
After the passage of Brexit, the same journal warned, “Britain is sailing into a storm with no one at the wheel.”
Of course, it will not be all smooth sailing for Berlusconi.
Those who are willing to exploit current conditions to boost their own popularity can expect clear sailing ahead – at least for now.
These developments may or may not ensure clear sailing for the rest of the year.
NEW YORK – In The Fortunes of Africa, author Martin Meredith describes a Dutch sailing ship that dropped off a load of laundry for the Khoikhoi, the local inhabitants of the southwestern cape of Africa whom Europeans called Hottentots.
Given these difficulties, diplomacy in Syria was obviously never going to be smooth sailing.
This summer, a century-old sailing ship, the Sedov, traversed the NSR without seeing any ice at all.
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