China’s Expanding Footprint in Uzbekistan
Via The Diplomat, a look at how Tashkent is seeking to maintain strong economic ties with Beijing while addressing public concerns about their possible impacts on the country’s sovereignty: [...]
China Is Already Pushing Back Against Trump in Panama and Latin America
Via World Politics Review, a report on how China is pushing back against the U.S. in Panama and Latin America: This week, a consortium of U.S. companies led by Blackrock was supposed to complete the [...]
Are China and Russia on a Collision Course in Africa?
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how – while Beijing seeks influence and prizes a stable investment climate – Moscow is sowing chaos and selling private security services to quell it: The [...]
Will Trump Buy “Ports for Peace”?
Via The Middle East-Told Slant, commentary on the potential for a transformational port-and-logistics project in Gaza: As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enters yet another bloody phase, and Trump [...]
Guyana: A Tiny Rainforest Country Growing Into a Petrostate
Via CNN, a report on Guyana, a tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate: Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the [...]
Building Critical Minerals Cooperation Between the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Via CSIS, a new report on potential critical minerals cooperation between the U.S. and DRC: The Issue The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries, [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.