The Railway That China Hopes Will Take On The US In Africa
March 22nd, 2025
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on the railway that China hopes will take on the US in Africa: Mukololo Chanda still recalls the glory days of Africa’s “freedom railway”. Almost four decades ago, fresh from high school in Zambia, she began working as a switchboard operator on the railway built by Mao Zedong’s […]
Read more »Amid Panama Port Sale, China Demands Patriotism From Its Private Sector
March 21st, 2025
Via The Diplomat, commentary on how the Chinese government frequently demands that businesses prove their political loyalty – even at the cost of their own financial interests: Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is squarely in the middle of the latest geopolitical conflict thanks to his port assets in Panama. Following threats made by U.S. President […]
Read more »China’s Georgian Gamble
March 18th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy Research Institute, a report on Georgia’s pivot towards China: As Georgia pivots away from the West and slides into dictatorship, China emerges as its key strategic partner. While Washington and Brussels struggle to find transatlantic unity and craft a unified approach to Russia and Ukraine, Beijing methodically expands its clout in the […]
Read more »Plans for a Chinese Port Roil the Politics of a Former Soviet Nation
March 13th, 2025
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how Georgia’s government sparked an uproar by announcing that a port project on the Black Sea will be awarded to a company from China after canceling a contract with a consortium that included Western firms: For more than a year, pro-Western marchers in Georgia, a former Soviet […]
Read more »China Piles the Pressure on India in Its Own Backyard
March 12th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report on Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island nearly 2,000 miles from the East African coast, boasts clear-blue waters, pristine beaches — and a US-UK military base at the heart of the great-power chess match involving the US, China and India. The British territory in the Chagos Archipelago – which has […]
Read more »Mapping China’s Strategic Port Development in Africa
March 12th, 2025
Via the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a look at how Chinese firms are present in over a quarter of all African port developments, some of which could be used for expanded Chinese naval presence on the continent: Chinese state-owned firms are active stakeholders in an estimated 78 ports across 32 African countries as builders, […]
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.