One Belt, One Road: China Aims To Build A Global Infrastructure Network
February 12th, 2017
Via MERICS China Mapping, a very detailed look at various components of China’s One Belt One Road Initiative:
Read more »Amid Beijing’s ‘Silk Road’ Splurge, Chinese Firms Eye Pakistan
February 8th, 2017
Via thew New York Times, an article on Chinese companies’ interest in Pakistan: Chinese companies are in talks to snap up more businesses and land in Pakistan after sealing two major deals in recent months, a sign of deepening ties after Beijing vowed to plough $57 billion (46 billion pounds) into a new trade route […]
Read more »Pakistan and China: Don’t Fear Chabahar Port
February 1st, 2017
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at what Iran’s Chabahar port deal with India and Afghanistan really means for China and Pakistan’s CPEC: Recently, on the sidelines of the sixth Heart of Asia Conference-Istanbul Process in Amritsar, India, Afghanistan and India planned to start air cargo transportation over Pakistan. The move will help greatly in exporting Afghan goods, such […]
Read more »CPEC: Pakistan’s Expensive Gamble
January 17th, 2017
Courtesy of The Gulf News, commentary on how some senior economists in Pakistan are now increasingly voicing their concern over the terms ?of financing from China for CPEC initiatives: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) launched formally during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Islamabad in 2015 symbolises the enduring China-Pakistan friendship. The implementation of the […]
Read more »China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Promoting Connectivity, Development Along Ancient Route
January 2nd, 2017
Via China Daily, an overview of China’s One Belt and Road plan: More than three years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. Looking back at 2016, the Belt and Road Initiative has gained fruitful early achievements, promoting connectivity and opening up possibilities […]
Read more »Inside China’s Global Spending Spree: OBOR
December 18th, 2016
Courtesy of Fortune Magazine, a detailed look at China’s One Belt One Road spending plans: “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $3 trillion infrastructure building campaign, could be a windfall for some Western companies and investors. The high-rise coastal city of Dubai plays host to all kinds of luxury oddities: indoor ski slopes, gold-bar vending machines, […]
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.