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Re:Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand ... by throwaway2037 on Thursday November 27, 2025 @06:33PM (#46074130) 

    > default on it and hand the stranded assets back to creditors
I doubt the debt is secured by the power assets. If anything, maybe China can assume ownership of the entire powerplant if Pakistan cannot pay. They have done that many times in Africa. See: "debt-trap diplomacy". Also, it is terrible advice to tell a country to default on external debt. See: Argentina!
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Re:Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand ... by toomuchtodo on Thursday November 27, 2025 @07:09PM (#46074357)
Argentina has defaulted nine times in its history. One or two times is not material, based on historical observations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises

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Re:Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand ... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday November 27, 2025 @07:24PM (#46074432)
> Argentina has defaulted nine times in its history

Argentina doesn’t make a habit of hosting its creditors’ troops [1].

[1] http://eng.mod.gov.cn/xb/News_213114/TopStories/16353167.htm...

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