Russia Lacks Infrastructure to Take Part in China’s Silk Road
November 25th, 2016
Via Window on Eurasia, a report on Russia’s infrastructure limitations to participate in China’s Silk Road project and Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Afghanistan’s efforts to create the Lazurian corridor,” a new railroad and canal transit network “connecting Central and South Asia with the Caspian, Black Sea and Mediterranean basins: Moscow has complained about and done […]
Read more »Why Is China So Interested In Investing In Rwanda?
November 23rd, 2016
Via Quartz, an interesting look at China’s interest in investing in Rwanda, a landlocked country with few natural resources: It’s hard not to see China’s footprint wherever one goes in Rwanda. Chinese engineers have designed and built the country’s tallest building, Kigali City Tower, a gleaming 20-story glass skyscraper; the building that houses Rwanda’s foreign […]
Read more »How China Is Taking The Silk Road To Financial Dominance
November 16th, 2016
Via CapX, a look at China’s Silk Road ambitions: Forget, for a moment, the uncertainties surrounding President-elect Donald Trump. Because in the East, the world’s biggest ever credit boom is set to get even bigger. What’s more, it is not being built around the US dollar, but around a new emerging global currency: the Chinese […]
Read more »Pakistan, China Launch New Trade Route
November 14th, 2016
Via Terra Daily, a look at a new trade route linking southwestern Gwadar port to the Chinese city of Kashgar: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Sunday inaugurated a trade route linking southwestern Gwadar port to the Chinese city of Kashgar as part of a joint multi-billion-dollar project to jumpstart economic growth in the South Asian country. […]
Read more »Iran’s New Petroleum Contract Regime Attracts First Foreign Companies
November 8th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on Iran’s new contract regime: The Iran Petroleum Contract has passed a major milestone, with the first two foreign firms signing a preliminary agreement under the terms. The contractual regime, put in place in April 2016 and meant to help attract $130 billion in foreign investment, is part of moderate […]
Read more »Myanmar: Ground Zero For China-India Energy Competition
November 6th, 2016
Via The Eurasia Review, a look at Myanmar’s position in the growing competition between China and India over energy resources: Since the early 1990s, China’s remarkable economic growth has led to a dramatic increase in its domestic energy needs, prompting its state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) to embark upon a worldwide search for oil and […]
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.