China’s Billions Help Xi Make Useful Friends in Eastern Europe
May 8th, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on China’s growing business relationships with Serbia and Hungary: It’s 10 a.m. and the high-speed train leaves Belgrade’s new, glass-and-steel station right on time. Thirty-six minutes later it pulls into Serbia’s northern city of Novi Sad, the first completed section of a 350 kilometer-long (217 mile) upgrade going up to […]
Read more »South Sudan: Midstream Investment to Bolster Production
May 8th, 2024
Via Energy, Capital & Power, a report on South Sudan’s efforts to build infrastructure to bolster oil production: To bolster its midstream capacity, South Sudan is seeking to construct new pipeline infrastructure, fuel product storage tanks and crude oil storage facilities to facilitate oil exports and reduce dependence on neighboring Sudan. The country has ambitious […]
Read more »US Must Support Critical Mineral Projects In Risky Nations
May 8th, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on the need for the US to support critical mineral projects in risky nations: The United States and its allies must encourage mining projects in countries where Western corporations are reticent to do business to guarantee a reliable and sustainable global supply of the critical minerals needed to combat climate change, […]
Read more »Kigali’s Big Shift to Small Electric Motorcycles Brings More Than Just Climate Benefits
May 7th, 2024
Via IFC, a look at how Kigali’s shift to small electric motorcycles yields more than just climate benefits: In Rwanda, more than half the vehicles on roads are “moto-taxis.” Though they are the backbone of the country’s transport system, they contribute to climate change. Thanks to a fast-growing electric motorbike start-up in Kigali, e-motorbikes are […]
Read more »East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse
May 7th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, a look at East Asia’s coming population collapse and how it will reshape world politics and regional economies: In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about to enter into an […]
Read more »China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Construction to Begin in October
May 7th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, an article on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway for which construction is to begin in October, a railway that Kyrgyzstan hopes will make it “a transit country for the world”: Construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway will begin in October, according to Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov. Speaking during a working trip to Osh on May […]
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.