China Is Already Pushing Back Against Trump in Panama and Latin America
March 31st, 2025
Via World Politics Review, a report on how China is pushing back against the U.S. in Panama and Latin America: This week, a consortium of U.S. companies led by Blackrock was supposed to complete the purchase of two ports in Panama from CK Hutchison, a Chinese firm based in Hong Kong. U.S. President Donald Trump […]
Read more »Are China and Russia on a Collision Course in Africa?
March 31st, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how – while Beijing seeks influence and prizes a stable investment climate – Moscow is sowing chaos and selling private security services to quell it: The sun was just coming up on March 19, 2023, as gunmen invaded the Chimbolo gold mine in the Central African Republic and opened […]
Read more »Will Trump Buy “Ports for Peace”?
March 31st, 2025
Via The Middle East-Told Slant, commentary on the potential for a transformational port-and-logistics project in Gaza: As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enters yet another bloody phase, and Trump seeks to block China’s access to parts of the global supply chain, could a transformational port-and-logistics project end the war in Gaza? The outline of this basic idea […]
Read more »Guyana: A Tiny Rainforest Country Growing Into a Petrostate
March 29th, 2025
Via CNN, a report on Guyana, a tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate: Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the deep water off the coast of this tiny, rainforested country. It was one of the most spectacular oil discoveries of recent […]
Read more »Building Critical Minerals Cooperation Between the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
March 29th, 2025
Via CSIS, a new report on potential critical minerals cooperation between the U.S. and DRC: The Issue The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries, and in 2024, it attracted the largest volume of mineral exploration investment in Africa. Enhancing U.S.-DRC cooperation is critical to counterbalance China’s dominance. […]
Read more »How a New Axis Called CRINK Is Working Against America
March 29th, 2025
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at how China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have united to defy Western sanctions and undermine U.S. interests: An axis uniting China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—dubbed CRINK by some Western officials—has emerged from the war in Ukraine, a loose alliance united by a mutual disdain for the […]
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.