Is Cambodia the Next Asian Tiger?
October 28th, 2021
Via Newsweek, an article on Cambodia is on course to be the next Asian Tiger, and that is good news for America. Ford Motors recently announced that it is building a $21 million assembly plant in the Pursat province of Cambodia. And the recent virtual business summit showcased the ease of doing business in Cambodia experienced by U.S. companies […]
Read more »China Expanding Influence in Africa Via Telecom Network Deals
October 23rd, 2021
Via VOA, an article on how China is expanding influence in Africa via telecom network deals: Telecommunications networks funded and built by China are taking over Africa’s cyberspace, a dependence that analysts suggest puts Beijing in a position to exert political influence in some of the continent’s countries. Bulelani Jili, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University’s […]
Read more »Growing Angola’s Agricultural Sector
October 23rd, 2021
Via Angola Press, a report on Angola’s efforts to encourage foreign investment in effort to boost agriculture output, including a pending agreement with the United Arab Emirates on a significant investment into the country’s agriculture sector: Businesspeople from the public and private sectors of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey have recently expressed their interest in obtaining concessions […]
Read more »Investors Spooked by Myanmar Crisis as Economy Braces for Free Fall
October 23rd, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Myanmar’s February coup has rapidly unwound a decade of economic progress, while foreign investors are headed for the exits: The precipitous collapse of the Myanmar kyat, which has lost more than 60 percent of its value in recent weeks, is the latest sign of the plight facing the country’s economy, which […]
Read more »Mapping China’s Digital Silk Road
October 21st, 2021
Via Reconnecting Asia, an article on China’s digital Silk Road (maps in original article): The Digital Silk Road is the technology dimension of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Xi’s Jinping’s vision for moving China closer to the center of everything. As the maps below illustrate, it is advancing several areas: wireless networks, surveillance cameras, subsea cables, […]
Read more »China Fast-Tracks Access To Rebellious Xinjiang
October 21st, 2021
Via The Asia Times, a report on the newly finished Hotan-Ruoqiang rail line completes the circle around the huge Taklamakan Desert on the old Silk Road: Ancient Silk Road travelers cursed China’s largest desert as Takla Makan, an ominous Persian-Turkic expression that translates as “enter and you may never return.” Undeterred by its sandstorms and […]
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.