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C101 US Coast Guard G5 departed San Jose Intl after an overnight.
Arrived at SFO last night from LAX depart and dropped someone/thing off then to San Jose
Was at SFO arriving from Reagan National departure on 11/03
86-0111 B1B heading ES
China lent $1.34 trln in 2000-2021, focus shifts from Belt and Road to rescue finance-report
Chinese financial institutions lent $1.34 trillion to developing countries from 2000 to 2021, U.S. researchers at AidData said in a report that showed the world's biggest bilateral lender switching from infrastructure to rescue lending.
While lending commitments peaked at almost $136 billion in 2016, China still committed to almost $80 billion of loans and grants in 2021 according to the data, which captures almost 21,000 projects in 165 low and middle income countries as probably the most comprehensive dataset of its type. Overseas finance has won Beijing allies across the developing world, while drawing criticism from the West and in some recipient countries, including Sri Lanka and Zambia, that infrastructure projects it funded saddled them with debt they were unable to repay. Both the sources and the focus of China's overseas financing, have changed, the data showed.
In 2013, when President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative to build infrastructure across the developing world, China's policy banks accounted for over half of the lending. Their share started falling from 2015 and was 22% by 2021.
The People's Bank of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), which manages China's foreign currency reserves, accounted for more than half of lending in 2021, almost all bailout lending.
"Beijing is navigating an unfamiliar and uncomfortable role— as the world's largest official debt collector," said the report by AidData, a research lab at William and Mary university. Much of China's growing rescue lending is denominated in renminbi, the report found, with loans in the Chinese currency overtaking U.S. dollars in 2020. Overdue payments to Chinese lenders have also risen. One way China is managing repayment risk is through foreign currency cash escrow accounts it controls, AidData said. The arrangement is controversial because it gives China debt seniority, meaning other lenders, including multilateral development banks, could get paid second during any coordinated debt relief.
AidData identified 15 countries, primarily in Africa, with escrow accounts totalling a combined $2.5 billion at their peak in June 2023. The destinations of Chinese overseas lending have also changed. Loan commitments to African countries fell from 31% of the total in 2018 to 12% in 2021, while lending to European countries almost quadrupled to 23%.
A different dataset showed loan commitments to African countries falling to a 20-year low in 2022.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-lent-134-trln-2000-2021-focus-shifts-belt-road-rescue-finance-report-2023-11-06/
Change of script breh
You need it badly
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That would explain some of the C17 trains from Ramstein and Spangdahlem that vanish around Greece and p/u around same area upon return
Last few days pretty heavy activity
Most of wut you post are nuffin moar than training flights
“Nation’s most unpopular Governor”
Umm yer missing someone here
Who is also positioning to be his official rival
Agree there are still good parts of CA just like in IL it all depends on the county you live in
But I’d argue due to CA overall population hair man has had a bigger (negative) impact but Pritzgerand family not far behind
If you get out of the big coastal city areas CA is a lot like Midwest and way moar conservative than how it is presented-lived here all of muh 5 plus decades and last one of 5 gens. But that is shrinking as well as the brian-washing takes hold of the youngins’
Want out cause it’ll take longer than I got left to fix it all tbh