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In the great game of geopolitics, the Kremlin brings out its “trump card” Beijing. The day of this Thursday will thus be marked by a meeting that looks like a front against the West. The presidents of China Xi Jinping and Russia Vladimir Putin are indeed meeting in Uzbekistan for a regional summit, in the midst of tensions exacerbated by the war in Ukraine but also by American diplomacy towards Taiwan. The two presidents will be joined, in the city of Samarkand, by the leaders of India, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and other countries for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (OCS).
Insecurity in Mayotte continues to raise the discontent of local elected officials. They have thus decided to close primary schools and local administrations this Thursday and “until further notice” in order to express their exasperation. Mayors, parliamentarians, departmental advisers and citizens’ groups have promised a return “to normal as soon as the situation calms down and structural solutions are found so that peace, security, serenity and public tranquility return”. It must be said that less than a month after the visit of the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories Gérald Darmanin, Mayotte has experienced a wave of violence in recent days, with roadblocks, clashes between rival gangs and with the forces of order, stoned school buses and vehicles.
This is a particularly rare philanthropic gesture. Yvon Chouinard, founder of sportswear brand Patagonia, has left his $3 billion empire to the fight against climate change, he told the New York Times and in an open letter. He transferred all the shares of the company to a trust and an NGO responsible for devoting all of the annual profits (about 100 million dollars) to the planet, in particular to the preservation of threatened habitats. Above all, unlike the charitable donations of many billionaires, it is not a question here of tax optimization: the Chouinard family will even pay 17.5 million dollars in taxes on the shares transferred to the trust. The patriarch specifies that his two forty-year-old children, who will not inherit the family business, support him 100%.