Responding To China’s Growing Influence On Ports In The Global South
October 31st, 2024
Via Center for Strategic and International Studies, commentary on how the West can respond to China’s growing influence on port infrastructure in the Global South: Port infrastructure around the world is critical to U.S. economic and military security. Although vitally important, it is an investment area where China is outpacing the United States. China now […]
Read more »Rare Earths: How Beijing Tamed a Lawless Industry and Gained Global Influence
October 28th, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how Chinese state-controlled companies now run an industry once known for its acid pits, radioactive waste and smugglers: As recently as 2010, few industries were as lawless, and yet as central to the global economy, as China’s production of rare earth metals. Consignments of rare earths […]
Read more »China’s Massive Fishing Fleet Overwhelms Peruvian Locals in ‘David and Goliath’ Battle
October 28th, 2024
Via the Wall Street Journal, a report on how one of the world’s richest fishing grounds is under pressure: For three decades, Francisco Chiroque’s livelihood has depended on the jumbo squid that flourish off this country’s Pacific coast in one of the world’s richest fishing grounds. This year, his catch has collapsed. Chiroque and the […]
Read more »China Leveraging Laos To Link Up Its Southeast Asian Economic Interests
October 28th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, a report on China’s growing interest in Laos: China aims to scale up infrastructure construction in uniquely strategic Laos to accelerate trade and investment throughout Southeast Asia as Chinese businesses scout for space to grow offshore, analysts said. Premier Li Qiang said during a four-day visit to the Southeast Asian nation […]
Read more »China Offers Taliban Tariff-Free Trade, Inches Closer To Regime
October 25th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on the Taliban efforts to find foreign investors willing to help it diversify its economy and profit from its mineral wealth, but Afghanistan exported no commodities to China last year: China will offer the Taliban tariff-free access to its vast construction, energy and consumer sectors, Beijing’s envoy to Afghanistan said […]
Read more »China Invites Colombia To Join BRI
October 24th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, an article on China’s invitation to Colombia to join the BRI: China has invited Colombia to join the Belt and Road Initiative and is “exploring the possibility of a free-trade agreement” with the South American country, Beijing’s ambassador to Bogota told local media. Zhu Jingyang’s remarks on the China-centred investment and infrastructure scheme spanning […]
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.