US to Pursue Seabed Mining With Cook Islands After China Pact
August 10th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report on U.S. plans to explore seabed mining with the Cook Islands: The US has entered talks with the Cook Islands to develop seabed mineral resources. The arrangement will include joint efforts to map the Cook Islands’ Exclusive Economic Zone, which is “one of the most promising regions for deep-sea mineral deposits,” […]
Read more »Why Deepening Investment Ties with Guatemala Can Advance US Economic Security
August 7th, 2025
Via the Atlantic Council, a discussion on why deepening investment ties with Guatemala can advance US economic security: The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, in partnership with the Foundation for the Development of Guatemala, hosts a discussion on Guatemala as a destination for strategic foreign investment and a growing source of capital contributing to […]
Read more »The Changing Skies Over Central Asia
August 6th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, an article on how – with a rapid expansion in flights to, from, and within the region – the aviation industry is starting to reshape Central Asia: For all the talk of infrastructure corridors, the real transport success story of the last few years in Central Asia has been in the air. […]
Read more »The Secret Rise of China’s AI Desert Empire
August 1st, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report on Beijing’s efforts to build a small city of data centers in remotest Xinjiang: There are approximately three dozen data centers spread across China’s western deserts that may one day have at their heart a cutting-edge processor made by Nvidia—the kind they’re not supposed to have. The US government has been trying […]
Read more »Breakaway Africa Region Seeks US Recognition With Base, Minerals
July 30th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report on Somaliland’s willingness to offer the US a military base at the entrance to the Red Sea and critical-minerals deals in its quest for international recognition as a sovereign state: Somaliland, which proclaimed independence from Somalia in 1991, is willing to offer the US a military base at the entrance to […]
Read more »Inside Africa’s New Cities: Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria Bet Big on Urban Mega Projects
July 30th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at – from Egypt’s sprawling New Administrative Capital to Kenya’s self-contained hub and Nigeria’s reclaimed lands – the companies shaping Africa’s future – and the enduring challenges of equitable growth: Africa’s fast-growing cities are defined by bold new projects, each aiming to address pressing urbanisation challenges. These developments, driven […]
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.