China Is Gobbling up Chile’s Energy Sector
September 27th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at Chile which is one of many Latin American countries where Chinese investment has quietly come to dominate key industries: In recent weeks, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown and U.S. Southern Command General Laura Richardson visited Chile, attending a multinational exercise and discussing military-to-military cooperation, […]
Read more »Beijing Doubles Down On The Belt And Road Initiative And On Africa
September 26th, 2024
Via Forbes, an article on China’s BRI focus on Africa: Despite China’s clear economic troubles and already huge debt overhang, Beijing has decided to step up its Belt and Road initiative (BRI) in Africa. For a while, it looked as though both Beijing and its BRI clients were stepping away from the arrangements. But earlier […]
Read more »Taliban Formally Seek Invitation To Russia’s BRICS Summit
September 26th, 2024
Via VOA News, a report on Afghanistan’s interest in the BRICS: Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban confirmed Wednesday that they have formally sought to join the upcoming Russia-hosted summit of the BRICS intergovernmental group of major emerging economies. The leaders of the 10 members of BRICS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, are […]
Read more »As Exxon Pumps Guyana’s Oil, China Is Winning Battle for Influence
September 26th, 2024
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at how Chinese companies are investing heavily in the South American country, home to the largest oil find in a generation: More than 100 miles off the coast of Guyana, Exxon Mobil is pumping hundreds of thousands of barrels every day from a gargantuan oil discovery that is transforming the […]
Read more »The Battle for the BRICS
September 26th, 2024
Via Foreign Affairs, an article on why the future of the BRICS bloc will shape global order: In late October, the group of countries known as the BRICS will convene in the Russian city of Kazan for its annual summit. The meeting is set to be a moment of triumph for its host, Russian President […]
Read more »Can India Create Its Own ‘Singapore’?
September 26th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a commentary on India Prime Minister Modi’s remarks that India wants to create “several Singapores” of its own: At the beginning of September, during a meeting with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India wanted to create “‘several Singapores” of its own. What did Modi mean by that, and […]
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.