Rise of A Vietnamese Corporate Empire
June 29th, 2019
Courtesy of The Financial Times (subscription required), an interesting look at Vingroup, a growing Vietnamese conglomerate which makes everything from smartphones to schools: Several weeks ago, I travelled east from Hanoi, through industrial estates and rice paddies, to the port of Haiphong in northern Vietnam. My driver took me over a causeway to Cat Hai […]
Read more »Digital Silk Road: China’s Dream of Conquering Asia
June 26th, 2019
Via The Asia Times, an article on China’s efforts to build a China-centered transnational network infrastructure to reboot globalization Geopolitics is all about leverage and geo-economics is all about bargaining on the leverage. The relative peace in the world today exists between the thin line of leverage and bargain, especially in the case of the ongoing […]
Read more »Afghan-Uzbek Trade
June 25th, 2019
Via The Diplomat, a report on how – with new initiatives and new infrastructure – trade can plays a dominant role in bilateral relations between Tashkent and Kabul: In May 2019, Tashkent launched an Afghanistan-Uzbekistan trade zone that will function within the Termez Cargo Center terminal at the Afghan-Uzbekistan border. The trade zone promises expedited handling of […]
Read more »Coca-Cola To Invest US300M In Ethiopia
June 22nd, 2019
Via The Reporter, an article on Coca Cola’s plans to invest in Ethiopia: Stretching on 14.3 hectares of land, a new Coca-Cola Factory that requires an investment outlay of two billion birr or USD 70 million, said to be the largest plant for coca cola in the country, is set to be finalized early next […]
Read more »European Football Clubs Invest In Emerging Markets
June 22nd, 2019
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at how Europe’s professional sports clubs are becoming top players in outward direct investment: Europe’s increasingly foreign-owned football clubs are becoming top players in outward direct investment. In March, a delegation from Real Madrid CF met Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad to talk about setting up a […]
Read more »Regional Rivalries Over Sri Lanka’s Ports
June 19th, 2019
Via East Asia Forum, a look at how foreign investments in Sri Lanka are made within the tapestry of regional and global power rivalries: When it comes to Sri Lanka’s national security and sovereignty, nothing seems more guaranteed to generate heated discussion than the spectre of foreign involvement in seaport developments. After years of wrangling, […]
Read more »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.