China’s Great Game: Taming Energy Rich Xinjiang
October 26th, 2015
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on how Beijing’s attempts to tame energy-rich Xinjiang may be stoking unrest from its ethnic Uighurs: As one of the world’s most remote and landlocked regions, Xinjiang is not high on the itinerary for foreign dignitaries visiting China. So when George Osborne, the UK’s chancellor, made a special request […]
Read more »China’s Great Game: A Modern Silk Road To A New Empire
October 26th, 2015
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an interesting article on China’s new Silk Road initiative: “The granaries in all the towns are brimming with reserves, and the coffers are full with treasures and gold, worth trillions,” wrote Sima Qian, a Chinese historian living in the 1st century BC. “There is so much money that the ropes […]
Read more »China’s Global Ambitions: Loans And Strings Attached
July 24th, 2015
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting look at China’s investment in Ecuador and elsewhere, as it uses its economic clout to win diplomatic allies and secure natural resources around the world: Where the Andean foothills dip into the Amazon jungle, nearly 1,000 Chinese engineers and workers have been pouring concrete for a dam […]
Read more »China: Betting On North Korea In Gamble To Save Its Rustbelt
July 22nd, 2015
Courtesy of Business Insider, an interesting look at China’s plans to utilize North Korea as part of its strategy to revitalize its NE rustbelt territory: At China’s very farthest limits, a town sandwiched between North Korea and Russia stands at the heart of Beijing’s plan to revitalise its bleak, frigid northeastern rustbelt. Beijing has a […]
Read more »China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
July 21st, 2015
Via Frontier Strategy Group, an interesting look at China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative: Ever since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to build a cross-regional economic plan in 2013 to strengthen trade and investment partnerships across Asian, European and African markets, China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative has been attracting worldwide attention with its massive scale […]
Read more »The Grand Design Of China’s New Trade Routes
June 24th, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), detailed analysis of China’s new trade routes: Forecast Over the next several years, China will devote significant resources to the construction of Eurasian trade routes under its Belt and Road Initiative. As transit routes come online, the proportion of Chinese maritime trade passing through South China Sea chokepoints will shrink. The […]
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.