China’s really being a champion of peace and stability /s

Emmanuel Macron l’assume d’ailleurs “totalement”

Par expérience, je devienne que quand E Macron dit qu’il assume, il ne veut pas dire qu’il va démissionner.

Quid de la trêve hivernale dans ce cas?

Je craint que ça ne soit une faille qui permette de passer outre les lois qui protègent les locataires.

Thanks for the links, it’s interesting background. In that article from February 2021, The Artlantic states “There was also never a default”.

There was indeed no default as of February 2021. The default occured later, in April-May 2022, so we can’t expect a past article to include that information.

All major lenders need to take part in restructuring the debt indeed. That occured in 2023, and multiple lenders asked for a restructuring deal similar to the first one signed with China. I don’t know about the US, but Japan/India/French lender were looking for a similar restructuration terms. That sounds fair to me.

A debt rework between Sri Lanka and countries including Japan, India and France was also expected this week, but news of the EXIM deal took them by surprise. The three nations request comparability of debt treatment with China.

“As far as the information we have is concerned, conditions set by China are comparable to ours,” Kanda said.

The country’s default is clear evidence the overall debt wasn’t sustainable. Both Sri Lanka and its lenders have a responsibility on this. China is often the first mentioned because it was (still is?) Sri Lanka’s biggest foreign lender, although it would be good to have transparency of the country’s debt and interest rates on a per-lender basis, to see which ones are the most sustaonables.

The 2022 bloomberg article you cite first state:

It didn’t provide details on the value of the loans which it said matured at the end of 2021, nor did it state which nations owed the money.

I couldn’t read much further due to the paywal.

The Bloomberg article has too few details to make conclusions. We don’t know if AP and Bloomberg articles are referring to the same countries, nor whether it’s a significant portion or that country’s debt toward China.

The Reuters 2021 article has more details, and cite write-offs, as well as specific countries benefiting from deferrals: Angola, Pakistan, Kenya, the Republic of Congo. It’s good to read there’s some willingness to accomodate some countries.

Sadly that didn’t prevent Zambia and Sri Lanka from defaulting. China has lended hundred of billion of dollars with unsustainable terms, and this contributed to countries defaulting. That’s a bad situation for everyone involved.

Et il n’a même pas annoncé ses intentions pour 2032 et 2037 ?

On nous préviens au dernier moment, comme toujours. /s

I hope Tanzania and Zambia read the fine pints on the loan/inversement agreement.

Vas y gros, qu’on rigole un peu.

La situation est intenable pour de multiple raisons. Macron qui refuse de nommer la candidate de la NFP, quitte à ce qu’elle soit censurée. Les différents partis de gauche/droite/centre qui annonce d’avance qu’ils censurons de toute façon si c’est Castets (ou si ca n’est pas elle) sans avoir même essayé de négocier un compromis de coalition. Les médias qui amplifient la moindre querelle de clocher.

Construire des logements oui mais pas n’importe comment. Sans politique d’urbanisme bien pensée, on perpétue ou crée des déséquilibres (cités dortoirs, quartier non mixtes) ou de l’étalement urbain (45min de voiture pour aller travailler).

Un exemple : Les projets de centre administratif/commerciaux géants impliquent une grosse demande de logements pour les fonctionnaires/employés qui vont y travailler. Mais aucun ou trop peu de logements sont prévus dans le quartier pour répondre au besoin créé.

faire exploser une couscoussière

Hélas, ça n’est pas Le Gorafi

Cela reviendrait à exclure les personnes ayant des horaires difficile à prévoir.

Le vendredi soir mon heure de départ en w-e n’est pas fixe a cause travail. Si la ligne de TER est régulière (proche de 1/heure) et sans réservation c’est possible pour moi de l’utiliser.

Hélas la tendance vas dans le sens contraire : soucis de régularité, billets de moins en moins flexible au fil des ans (disparition du billet valable toute la journée, disparition du billet A-R valable 7 jours). Et bientôt réservation des places? Je n’arriverait plus jamais à prendre un billet

A call for resignation may only be the first step, or a way to confront him and calling out his failures.

An obvious alternative is shipping large containers to local distributors and warehouses, and to recycle and fill bottles locally.

That’d probably bring its own sets of challenges, like requiring each distributor to ensure hygyene, pasteurization, labeling of bottles, …

Philippe Poutou, avec Guillaume Meurice à la culture, Martine Tondelier à l’écologie, Lucie Castets pour l’économie et les finances, Karim Bouamrane à l’intérieur, Gérarld Darmanin à l’extérieur.

These integrations have big limitations which I would consider deal breakers. To quote this blog post :

❌ Files are not stored on the local disk like a proper Cloud service app

❌ Cannot be used without internet

That’s better than nothing, but definitely not a good option.

It sounds like Google Drive isn’t a very good option for Linux users. Better look for another provider which support Linux, or to do it yourself with syncthing.

If all you need is 15 Go, it’s something which can easily be stored on another device and synced with syncting. If you need more you’d have to pay anyway, go pick anything but Google.

Comment ça peut passer inaperçu des autorités pendant 17 ans ?

Le Parisien met en avant Jean Luc Mélenchon, le personnage le plus clivant, dans la photo d’illustration et dans l’article.

Ça n’est pas le cas dans le texte original publié dans La Tribune qui montre et cite à la fois :

Jean-Luc Melenchon, co-président de l’institut La Boëtie et les politiciens LFI Manuel Bompard, Mathilde Panot

Ukraine consulting with the USA is plausible, but on the other hand a Russian diplomat is the worse source a newspaper could cite. There are very few people less objective on this topic than Russian diplomats.