Latin American Renewables Boom: Not Just A China Story
July 6th, 2023
Courtesy of The Asia Times, a report on Latin America’s renewable industry where Chinese firms back the lion’s share of projects but homegrown industries and ‘frugal innovation’ also are key: The story of renewable energy’s rapid rise in Latin America often focuses on Chinese influence, and for good reason. China’s government, banks and companies have […]
Read more »In Timor-Leste, China Chips Away at Australian Influence
July 6th, 2023
Via The China Project, a report on growing Chinese influence in Timor Leste: In 2017, Timor-Leste signed up to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and hosted Chinese warships in its ports. It led to fears of a political power-play by the P.R.C., with some calling Timor-Leste “Australia’s Cuba.” The tiny half-island nation of Timor-Leste […]
Read more »Chinese Mining Company Opens Giant Lithium Processing Plant in Zimbabwe
July 6th, 2023
Via AP News, a report on a new Chinese-funded lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe: A Chinese mining company formally opened a $300 million lithium processing plant Wednesday in Zimbabwe, which has one of the world’s largest reserves of the metal as demand surges globally because of its use in electric car batteries. Zimbabwe has the […]
Read more »The Rising Sino-Qatari Gas Collaboration
July 4th, 2023
Via Amwaj Media, a look at the rising Sino-Qatari gas collaboration: As the importance of China’s role in the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector grows, the energy dimensions to Sino-Qatari relations have significantly deepened. The shift is taking place in a context featuring rising tensions in China’s relationships with two top competitors of Qatar […]
Read more »Mongolia In The Middle: China and Russia May Split Over the Allure of Renewables
June 30th, 2023
Via The Interpreter, commentary on how Mongolia – with an abundance of solar and wind power – is set to impact Sino-Russian relations: Mongolia, sandwiched as it is between China and Russia, the world’s two most powerful authoritarian states, is unlucky. Its rich solar and wind potential may prove to be a curse, not a […]
Read more »Will India Surpass China to Become the Next Superpower? Four Inconvenient Truths…
June 28th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, analysis of India’s potential to surpass China: When India overtook China in April to become the world’s most populous nation, observers wondered: Will New Delhi surpass Beijing to become the next global superpower? India’s birth rate is almost twice that of China. And India has outpaced China in economic growth for […]
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.