The Cable Ties to China’s Digital Silk Road
May 7th, 2024
Via the Lowy Institute, a report on the cable ties to China’s Digital Silk Road: Technological competition between the United States and China is transforming the physical connections that make up the digital world and its governance. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” eventually incorporated digital connectivity under the rubric Digital Silk Road in an effort to leverage […]
Read more »Congo’s $7 Billion Deal With China Linked to Copper Price Under New Contract
May 6th, 2024
Via Caixin Global, a report on a revamped minerals-for-infrastructure deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and China: A revamped minerals-for-infrastructure deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and China that will send billions of dollars in financing to the Central African nation is contingent on the price of copper, according to a newly published […]
Read more »China’s Investment In Africa’s Lithium Beginning To Pay Off
May 3rd, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, an article on how China’s investment in Africa’s lithium mines is beginning to pay off with new mineral supply chains created: China’s investment in Zimbabwe’s Kamativi lithium mine has seen production of the essential mineral increase exponentially It is part of Beijing’s plan to open up lithium supply, with the […]
Read more »China Woos Argentina, Bolivia and Peru to Advance Belt and Road
May 2nd, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Beijing’s efforts to advance BRI in South America: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met with counterparts from Argentina, Peru and Bolivia in the past week, as Beijing intensifies efforts to court Latin American countries through its Belt and Road infrastructure-building initiative. Wang met with Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino […]
Read more »Green New Wave: How China Adapts to Central Asia’s Renewable Energy Landscape
May 1st, 2024
Via Carnegie Endowment, commentary on how China has been investing in solar and wind energy projects in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, increasingly adapting its approach to the needs and regulations in each country: China has become a global power, but there is too little debate about how this has happened and what it means. Many argue […]
Read more »China’s Continuing Influence Over Cambodia’s Economy
May 1st, 2024
Via East Asia Forum, a look at China’s continuing influence over Cambodia’s economy: China’s significant investment in Cambodia, including infrastructure support as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, has turned Cambodia into a major manufacturing hub and bolstered its global supply chain ties. But given China’s dominant influence on Cambodia’s economy and substantial loans, […]
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.