Inside the U.S. Battle with China Over an Island Paradise Deep in the Pacific
May 3rd, 2025
Via Reuters, an article on Palau – once the site of ferocious World War Two battles – it is again at the epicenter of a geostrategic tussle. America is building radar stations here, while individuals and groups tied to China wage an intense influence campaign with money and land. The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage […]
Read more »Investing in Ukraine: Folly or Wisdom?
May 3rd, 2025
Via CSIS, commentary on the planned discussions of a mineral security deal between the U.S. and Ukraine: The Trump administration has now threatened twice to walk away from negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. The third time could mean disaster—an end to U.S. aid for Ukraine and, with it, lost business opportunities, lost talent, and lost […]
Read more »How To Unleash African Capital
April 29th, 2025
Via The Economist, commentary on Djibouti: Djibouti, a country of just over a million people on the African side of the Red Sea’s Bab el-Mandab strait, is blessed with neither mineral resources nor agricultural land. But it does have two things: a unique geographic location at a chokepoint of global maritime trade, and political stability. […]
Read more »China’s Guangzhou Port Starts Shipping Route To Peru
April 29th, 2025
Via Reuters, a report on growing logistics connections between China and Peru: China’s Guangzhou Port, the largest shipping hub in the country’s south, opened a direct route to Chancay port in Peru on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, a move it said would reduce logistics costs and bolster trade with Latin America. Located north of […]
Read more »The Mauritius Economic Miracle Is Losing Its Sheen
April 29th, 2025
Via The Economist, a report on the economy of Mauritius: The Mont Choisy Golf and Beach Estate in the north of Mauritius was once a vast swathe of sugarcane, the centuries-old basis of the island’s economy. Where African slaves and Indian indentured labourers used to toil, French and South African pensioners now mull over the merits […]
Read more »Tourism and the Maldivian Economy: Fragile Growth, Strategic Risks, and Policy Imperatives
April 28th, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on the Maldivian economy where tourism generates almost half of the Maldives tax and non-tax revenues: The Republic of Maldives was in the news as the Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives scolded former President Nasheed for publicly supporting a resolution in the United Nations that asked for peace in Ukraine […]
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.