Turkey’s Pivot to Central Asia
November 13th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, an article on Turkey’s renewed focus on Central Asia: Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Central Asia twice. He first went to Uzbekistan to attend a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization and then to Kazakhstan to participate in the 10th anniversary summit of the Organization of Turkic States. The […]
Read more »Limits To China’s Middle East Clout
November 13th, 2023
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, an article on how China’s economic influence in the Middle East won’t grow endlessly as its overseas investment and energy-demand growth slow down: For most of the past decade, China’s story in the Middle East has been straightforward: endlessly rising investment, trade and influence. Having brokered a return to diplomatic […]
Read more »Chinese and Russian Firms Discuss Joint Energy Project Development
November 13th, 2023
Via Reuters, a report that Chinese and Russian energy firms are discussing jointly developing oil and gas fields: China is in talks with Russia’s Rosneft (ROSN.MM), Gazprom (GAZP.MM) and Novatek (NVTK.MM) about the joint development of oil and gas fields and hydrocarbon trade, state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said on Wednesday. Russia is counting […]
Read more »The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway: Indonesia’s Lessons Learned
November 13th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, an article on lessons Indonesia learned from the Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway project: It would be an understatement to say that October was a momentous month for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing celebrated the initiative’s 10th anniversary by holding the third Belt and Road Forum; around the same time, its […]
Read more »Venezuela: Bonanza or Bust?
November 13th, 2023
Via The Economist, a report on how oil traders are flocking to sanctions-free Venezuela: The cocktail bar in one of the most expensive hotels in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is abuzz. A huddle of businessmen, speaking English, are in animated conversation at one table. Across the lobby, another group of visitors from India has just […]
Read more »Democratic Republic of Congo: ‘Future Is Bankable’
November 11th, 2023
Via The East African, commentary from Kenyan Ambassador to the DRC George Masafu about Democratic Republic of Congo’s bad history of wars and instability, but its bankable future: Summary Mafafu said DRC is a victim of its own history. But since 2018, state authority is being put in place. He said the country’s parliament is enacting […]
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.