How Argentina Pushed Chinese Investors to Help Revitalize Its Energy Grid
December 23rd, 2021
Via the Carnegie Endowment, a report on Argentina and Chinese investment: China has become a global power, but there is too little debate about how this has happened and what it means. Many argue that China exports its developmental model and imposes it on other countries. But Chinese players also extend their influence by working through local […]
Read more »Kenyan Flower Exports In Full Bloom
December 23rd, 2021
Via Logistics Update Africa, a report on Kenya’s cut flower industry: With a perfect all-year growing climate, affordable labour and access to temperature-controlled air freight, Kenya has all the ingredients to become one of the top flower producers in the world. For an emerging nation like Kenya, being the third-largest exporter of cut flowers in […]
Read more »Pakistan-Iran-Turkey Rail Freight Line Reopens After Ten Years
December 23rd, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, a report on a newly resumed Islamabad-Istanbul rail service which will boost trade among the Economic Cooperation Organisation countries: The first freight train to run from Pakistan to Turkey through Iran has departed after a 10-year hiatus in a major boost to the trading capabilities of the three founders of the Economic Cooperation […]
Read more »New China-Backed ‘Green’ Industrial Zone On Borneo
December 22nd, 2021
Via Eurasia Review, an article on a new China-backed ‘green’ industrial zone On Borneo: Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo broke ground Tuesday on a U.S. $132-billion “green” industrial estate on Borneo to be built with investments from China and the United Arab Emirates and electrified by a Chinese-funded hydropower plant. When finished the 30,000-hectare (116-square-mile) industrial […]
Read more »Belt and Road: How Laos Exemplifies Preconditions for Global Success
December 21st, 2021
Via New Eastern Outlook, a report on Laos’ results from BRI investments: More than eight years ago, in September 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the launch of China’s global transport initiative, One Belt One Road (OBOR). The project implies the unification of all major world transport routes into a single system and removing all […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Gas Pains Threaten Economy
December 21st, 2021
Via The Asia Times, a look at how Pakistan’s gas shortages caused by myopic government policies are shuttering crucial export-geared textile industry and inflating local food prices: Pakistan is teetering towards an energy-cum-economic crisis as natural gas supplies dry up, export-oriented factories that use the fuel close down and households that rely on it for […]
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.