BRI: What’s Holding Up The Trains From Pakistan To Turkey Via Iran?
January 27th, 2021
Via the South China Morning Post, commentary on how – while Iran Pakistan, and Turkey have announced that the rail project will be revived this year – it must still overcome infrastructural hurdles before it can kick-start important rail routes under China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Recently, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan announced they would revive […]
Read more »Iran Can Solve Turkmenistan’s Natural Gas Dilemma
January 25th, 2021
Via Bourse & Bazaar, an interesting look at how Iran’s strategy to become the natural gas hub of the region depends on developing several gas corridors with its neighbors, and gas-rich Turkmenistan ought to be a key partner in this strategy: Bordering Iran on the northeast, Turkmenistan is a Central Asian country with a population […]
Read more »Top Ten Emerging Markets Brands
January 25th, 2021
Via Emerging World, an interesting report on the top emerging market brands: Every year, global consultancy Brand Finance launches its Global Top 500 Brands index. It’s a highly anticipated list that captures global headlines and spawns the occasional “top ten list” (guilty as charged, see below). They just put out their latest 2020 report at the virtual […]
Read more »Gazprom Sign Off Mongolian SPV To Study Gas Supplies To China
January 25th, 2021
Via Russia Briefing, an interesting report on Gazprom’s recent actions to study the potential of gas supply from Mongolia: Gazprom has registered a ‘Special Purpose Vehicle’ (SPV) company in Mongolia to deal with design and survey and the feasibility study for the project of building a main gas pipeline across Mongolia for gas deliveries to […]
Read more »China’s Role in Switching Off The Lights In Pakistan
January 25th, 2021
Via The Asia Times, an article on how China has invested billions in Pakistan power but tainted deals have contributed to recent nationwide blackouts with more likely to come: A nationwide power outage on January 10 in Pakistan came at a dark financial moment for its indebted and corrupted power sector, raising the prospect of […]
Read more »Deep-Water friendship: Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan Bury Caspian Sea Hatchet
January 25th, 2021
Via Upstream Online, a report on how Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have agreed to join forces in exploring and developing contested deep-water block as relations have warmed: Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have agreed to settle decades-long claims on a large oil and gas block in the Caspian Sea, with new plans for joint operations in the region. […]
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