Afghanistan’s Fate Will Be Shaped by Geoeconomics
September 21st, 2021
Via Geopolitical Monitor, an article on the impact of geoeconomics on Afghanistan’s future: Geoeconomics was originally defined by the strategic thinker Edward Luttwak as the logic of conflict expressed through the grammar of commerce. As such, it represents an analytical model that is appropriate to examine the involvement of geopolitical forces in the economic sphere […]
Read more »The Afghan Commodities That China, India And Russia May Develop
September 4th, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, commentary on potential access to Afghanistan’s mineral resources in light of the Taliban’s victory: Afghanistan’s huge mineral wealth and development opportunities are heading East, not West. The underlying reasons for the US and NATO’s operations in Afghanistan, prompted by the faster than expected success of the Taliban taking control were strongly […]
Read more »Short on Money, The Taliban Face a Crisis
September 4th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on Afghanistan’s cash crunch: As Afghans pay surging prices for eggs and flour and stand in long lines at the bank, money changers like Enayatullah and his underground financial lifeline have found themselves in desperate demand. Enayatullah — his family name withheld — holds down a tiny […]
Read more »Taliban Okays TAPI Gas Pipeline Work To Resume As Kabul Banks Reopen
August 25th, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, an article on some signs of normalcy returning to Afghanistan: Signs of normality returning as Afghani banks reopen and national infrastructure projects restart Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said that one of the group’s main priorities, once it has established itself in power in Afghanistan, is to push ahead with the TAPI […]
Read more »Taliban Coffers Filled By Afghanistan’s Shadow Economy
August 21st, 2021
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on the Tailban’s challenge of paying government salaries and keeping the country running: The toppling of Afghanistan’s pro-western government and re-establishment of Taliban control has handed the running of the country’s formal economy over to the Islamists. Yet this task will not be completely alien to the militant […]
Read more »The Belt and Road’s Future In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
August 21st, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a look at BRI’s future in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan: When the United States and its allies began evacuating from Kabul on August 15, as the Taliban entered the Afghan capital, China decided to keep its embassy open and claimed it was ready for friendly relations with the Taliban. State Councillor and Foreign Minister […]
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.