Use It or Lose It: China’s Grand Strategy
April 9th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at China’s grand strategy: In 2010, Canada hosted the G7 finance ministers in Nunavut, the country’s frigid Arctic province that is home to a mere 30,000 Inuit people. Canada’s “Northern Strategy” for the Arctic was a centerpiece of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tenure, resulting in a […]
Read more »China: Trading Its “String of Pearls” For Increased Engagement With Myanmar?
April 3rd, 2016
Courtesy of Eurasia Review, a look at China’s growing strategic engagement of Myanmar: China, of late, has been pitching to increase its influence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) through Myanmar. As an emerging maritime power in the Indo-Pacific, China is seeking a legitimate presence in the IOR. However, it faces connectivity dilemma in its […]
Read more »The Brics Are Dead… Long Live The Ticks
January 28th, 2016
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on the decline of Brazil and Russia from an emerging market fund perspective: The Brics are dead. Long live the Ticks. The Brics concept, based on the belief that the quartet of Brazil, Russia and India and China would power an unstoppable wave of emerging markets-led economic growth, […]
Read more »China Plans A New Silk Road, But Trading Partners Are Wary
December 25th, 2015
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how Beijing’s effort to revive ancient trade routes is causing geopolitical strains, with countries like Turkey increasingly worried about becoming too dependent on China: As tensions in the Mideast and Ukraine rose in recent years, Turkey moved to jointly manufacture a sophisticated missile defense system. The $3.4 billion plan […]
Read more »China’s Key Cities: From Local Places To Global Players
December 18th, 2015
Via the European Financial Review, a look at the growth and future of some of China’s cities: China projects a huge and continually growing profile and impact on the world stage. Much of this Chinese influence globally is often anchored to and channeled out by its key cities. Shanghai towers over all these cities in […]
Read more »China’s Growing Energy Partnership With Turkmenistan
November 12th, 2015
Via China Daily, a report on China’s moves to increase its energy cooperation with Turkmenistan: China is ready to push cooperation on energy with Turkmenistan to a new high, President Xi Jinping told his counterpart from the Central Asian nation on Thursday. He made the comment as the two countries renewed their commitment to grow […]
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.