Mongolia: A Case for Flexibility in U.S. Economic Engagement
March 18th, 2024
Via Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a paper on U.S. economic engagement of Mongolia: The United States will be unable to fulfill its goals of engaging economically in strategically important countries, including implementing the G7-led Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, elements of the Quad, and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, if it takes an inflexible and […]
Read more »How China and Angola Are Redefining Economic Ties for a Post-Oil, Post-Loans Era
March 18th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, a look at how China and Angola are redefining economic ties for a post-oil, post-loans era: Following decades of the ‘Angola model’ – oil-backed loans to access Chinese funding for infrastructure – Beijing vows to help modernise Angola ‘We addressed the problem of Angola’s debt to China … but also […]
Read more »The Pacific Power Game
March 18th, 2024
Courtesy of The Wire China, a look at how – with a new multi-billion dollar aid package agreed – the U.S. is trying to keep up with China in a strategically important region: The small island countries that dot the vast Pacific Ocean are sparsely populated and hard to pinpoint on a map. Yet in […]
Read more »Armenia’s Controversial Dry Port Project Hinges on Foreign Investment
March 18th, 2024
Via Oil Price.com, a report on Armenia’s plans to build a dry port to become a transit and trade hub, reducing reliance on Russia: Armenia aims to build a dry port to become a transit and trade hub, reducing reliance on Russia. The project faces challenges including securing large foreign investment and navigating a complex […]
Read more »Inside Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Dominate Mining
March 18th, 2024
Courtesy of Semafor, commentary on Saudi Arabia’s ambitious plans to dominate mining: Saudi Arabia sees vast riches beyond oil within its reach. The kingdom’s broad-ranging ambition, a top mining official told Semafor, is to extract the more than $2.5 trillion in metals in its soil, invest in minerals extraction around the world, and capture as much […]
Read more »Turkey, Iraq Seek Closer Trade Ties: Want To Build A New Trade Route To Europe
March 18th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Iraq and Turkey’s efforts to convince Gulf states to help finance a $17 billion trade route stretching from Iraq’s Faw Port in its southern Basra province to Turkey, and then on to Europe: Ankara, Baghdad want to build a new trade route to Europe Deal comes as neighbors try to […]
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.