Is India Really the Next China?
April 8th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, a look at whether India is really the next China: RESHIDEV RK ILLUSTRATION FOR FOREIGN POLICY Will India be the next China? As China’s economy spirals downward and optimism about India’s growth reverberates around the world, that question can no longer be dismissed as the fevered fantasy of nationalists. It needs to […]
Read more »The Dark Side of Clean Energy: China’s Copper Mine in Serbia
April 8th, 2024
Via UnHerd, commentary on a Chinese-owned copper mine in Serbia: A tiny hay-cart blocks the path to a vast Chinese-owned copper mine. From it hangs a hand-painted sign that reads “life before profits”, a message for Serbia Zijin Mining, the subsidiary of a Chinese conglomerate, which is seeking to build a road through a pretty […]
Read more »Russia’s Infinity to Bolster Egyptian Mining with $1BN Investment
April 8th, 2024
Via Energy, Capital & Power, a report on a Russian’s firm’s significant bet on Egypt’s mining sector: Russian mining firm Infinity plans to invest up to $1 billion in Egypt’s gold mining industry to boost its business portfolio and the country’s extractive sector. Infinity announced its participation in a bidding round initiated by Egyptian mining company Shalateen Mineral Resources, which […]
Read more »Is China Gaslighting the Developing World?
April 8th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, commentary on how Beijing’s promises of equality are actually a guise for hegemony: When Hanoi declared its support for China’s proposed “community of shared destiny” during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam last December, it was hailed by Beijing. China wants a post-American world order of its own design, and […]
Read more »How India Can Take China’s Growth Crown
April 8th, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, analysis of how – if India hits all the right economic notes – it could lead global growth by 2028: China is slowing and Western governments increasingly see it as a rival rather than an economic partner. On its southwestern border, another rising economy is vying to take its place as the […]
Read more »Investing In African Pop Culture
April 8th, 2024
Via Semafor, commentary on the growing investment interest in African pop culture: There has long been lip service paid to the idea that African countries have a rich and vibrant culture which has influenced many aspects of modern popular culture, particularly in the United States. But we have only recently started to see major players […]
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.