Sri Lanka Must Pivot To The BRICS For A New Dawn
September 21st, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the potential that the BRICS can offer Sri Lanka as economic and strategic partners: In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP and rival political parties alike had […]
Read more »Will Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal Be A Success?
September 20th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, analysis of Cambodia’s Funan Techo canal: Mot Yen’s ramshackle kitchen is nestled under an old mango tree. It’s near the end of the season and there’s no fruit on the branches. Part of the kitchen wall has fallen off but the family doesn’t plan to fix it. “We’re moving anyway,” the 56-year-old […]
Read more »North Korea and BRICS
September 20th, 2024
Via 38North, a report on North Korea’s engagement with the BRICS: North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui recently attended the Fourth Eurasian Women’s Forum in Russia and the First BRICS Women’s Forum held on the sidelines of the Eurasian women’s forum.[1] Earlier, in June, a North Korean Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports delegation attended a BRICS sports ministers meeting in Russia, which seems […]
Read more »China Spent Millions On A New Trade Route – Then A War Got In The Way
September 20th, 2024
Via BBC, a report on the uncertain fate of China’s ambitious plan to connect its landlocked southwest to the Indian Ocean via Myanmar: “One village, two countries” used to be the tagline for Yinjing on China’s south-western edge. An old tourist sign boasts of a border with Myanmar made of just “bamboo fences, ditches and […]
Read more »New $90 Billion World Bank Plan to Electrify Africa Gets Underway
September 20th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on a new $90 Billion World Bank plan to electrify Africa: Mission 300 aims to bring electricity to 300 million Africans Rockefeller Foundation, GEAPP to help assess proposed projects A plan to bring electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030, backed by an initial pledge of $30 billion from the World Bank and […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia’s New Brand Has New Myths
September 20th, 2024
Saudi Arabia isn’t just physically transforming itself; the kingdom is also telling its people — and the world — a new story about itself in order to build a modern national identity as reported in Semfor: Expensive skyscrapers, shopping malls, and freeways are being carved out of the red-gold sands of the desert, as Saudi Arabia’s […]
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.