Western Nations Join Forces To Break China’s Grip On Critical Minerals
September 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on a coalition of 14 governments which announced a financing network for projects to provide raw materials required by tech industry: Western nations are directing their development finance and export credit agencies to work with private industry to support critical minerals projects, in a drive to break China’s […]
Read more »The Implications of Brazil Joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative
September 23rd, 2024
Via Stratfor RANE’s Worldview, analysis of the implications of Brazil joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Despite China’s declining investment volumes in Brazil, strengthening cooperation remains of interest to both countries, which will likely see Brazil join China’s Belt and Road Initiative, potentially before the end of the year. Recent diplomatic discussions between Brazil and China […]
Read more »Will Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal Be A Success?
September 20th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, analysis of Cambodia’s Funan Techo canal: Mot Yen’s ramshackle kitchen is nestled under an old mango tree. It’s near the end of the season and there’s no fruit on the branches. Part of the kitchen wall has fallen off but the family doesn’t plan to fix it. “We’re moving anyway,” the 56-year-old […]
Read more »China Spent Millions On A New Trade Route – Then A War Got In The Way
September 20th, 2024
Via BBC, a report on the uncertain fate of China’s ambitious plan to connect its landlocked southwest to the Indian Ocean via Myanmar: “One village, two countries” used to be the tagline for Yinjing on China’s south-western edge. An old tourist sign boasts of a border with Myanmar made of just “bamboo fences, ditches and […]
Read more »China’s Push Into Africa Makes Good Strategic Sense
September 18th, 2024
Via the Asia Times, a report on how – whether it’s gaining UN votes, winning access to resources or increasing use of the yuan – China’s ventures in Africa are paying dividends: China’s relationship with Africa is set to deepen. At a summit in Beijing in early September, China’s president, Xi Jinping, pledged to deliver US$51 billion […]
Read more »How an Unknown Chinese Phonemaker Took Over Africa
September 17th, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at how Shenzhen Transsion Holding has spent years building devices to cater to African consumer tastes: On a hectic road in Lagos, Nigeria, packed with minibuses and motorized rickshaws, ads for the hottest new tech products are plastered all over a crowded electronics mart. A giant billboard looms above, displaying […]
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.