North Korea’s Capitalist Pigs
June 25th, 2022
Via NK News, a look at how the private market brought pork to the table in North Korea: North Korean founding leader Kim Il Sung once famously promised that every citizen would soon be able to eat meat (that is, pork) soup daily. However, three decades of attempts to create a state-controlled system of pig farming ended in […]
Read more »Africa’s Top CEOs: Hyped On Côte d’Ivoire
June 20th, 2022
Via Quartz Africa, a look at why Africa’s top CEOs are so hyped on Côte d’Ivoire: Côte d’Ivoire is reclaiming its reputation as a top investment destination in Francophone Africa, and on the continent as a whole. That’s according to the 2022 CEO Barometer Survey recently released at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, an […]
Read more »Turkey, China See Opportunity In Central Asia After Moscow’s Ukraine Invasion
June 20th, 2022
Via Radio Free Europe, an article on how Turkey and China see opportunity In Central Asia after Moscow’s Ukraine invasion: Since Moscow’s February invasion of Ukraine, Central Asian governments have sought to limit their reliance on Russia and grapple with the economic fallout from economic sanctions that the Kremlin’s war has brought to their region. […]
Read more »Iran, Kazakhstan Inaugurate Rail Transit Route
June 20th, 2022
Via Tasnim News, an article on a new rail link between Iran and Kazakhstan: A rail transit link between Iran and Kazakhstan was brought into operation on Sunday, allowing for cargo trains to freight shipments from Kazakhstan to Turkey through Iran. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi used a video conference link on Sunday to order the […]
Read more »The Backlash to Belt and Road
June 17th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on what some term a South Asian battle over Chinese economic power: When Beijing announced its One Belt, One Road initiative five years ago, the global reaction was immediate and pronounced. OBOR, as it became known, was hailed as a transformative effort to deploy China’s economic might in service of […]
Read more »Perking Up: Is Huawei Set To Take On Starbucks In Coffee Push?
June 17th, 2022
Via Week in China, a look at Ren Zhengfei is not a coffee drinker. But that hasn’t stopped the founder of Huawei from becoming a coffee devotee. He’s known to have joked that when he retires, he would like to open a coffee shop. He has also been quoted (repeatedly) pushing the maxim, “A cup […]
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.