Digital Silk Road: China-GCC Digital Economic Cooperation
June 11th, 2022
Via The Middle East Institute, a look at China-GCC digital economic cooperation: The strategic rivalry between China and the US that has developed over the past decade includes a struggle for control of the global digital economy, particularly the digital infrastructure and information communications technology (ICT) markets. In recent years, China has become a global […]
Read more »Iran, Venezuela Sign Two-Decade Cooperation Deal
June 11th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, a report that Iran and Venezuela have signed a two-decade cooperation deal: Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year deal on cooperation between the two allies subject to US sanctions during a visit Saturday to the Islamic republic by Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro. The inking of the agreement “shows the determination of the high-level […]
Read more »China’s Southern Strategy
June 10th, 2022
Via Foreign Affairs, a look at how Beijing is using the Global South to constrain America For the past decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping has endeavored to help China attain what it considers to be its rightful position at the center of the world stage. To do this, Xi—along with the rest of China’s leadership—is attempting […]
Read more »Out of Africa: EV Battery Firms Look To Lock In Raw Materials
June 10th, 2022
Via Week In China, an article on how African battery firms are working to lock in raw materials from Africa: “A skilled woman cannot cook without rice,” warned the Southern Song Dynasty poet and historian Lu You, in what has become a famed Chinese saying. The country’s media has been deploying that idiom again this […]
Read more »Future of African Oil and Gas
June 10th, 2022
Via McKinsey, a report on how – with momentum for sustainability building – Africa’s oil and gas producing nations have a unique opportunity to embark on an inclusive energy transition and chart a course toward a sustainable future: African’s oil and gas industry is entering a new era. As the world looks to accelerate its […]
Read more »Growth Engine: China To Build A New Railway Through Kyrgyzstan
June 10th, 2022
Via Week In China, an article on China’s plans to build a new railway through Kyrgyzstan: When a new railway line through Kyrgyzstan last came up for serious discussion five years ago, the plan was an ambitious one. The idea was to connect Kashgar in China with Tashkent in Uzbekistan, traversing high altitudes via nearly 50 […]
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.