China’s Tianqi Lithium’s $4bn bet on Chile at risk of backfiring
April 10th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on China’s Tianqi’s $4bn bet on Chile’s lithium which is at risk of backfiring: When China’s Tianqi Lithium paid $4bn in 2018 to become the second-largest shareholder in Chile’s SQM, it was making a gamble to gain a strategic foothold in one of the world’s top lithium reserves […]
Read more »Robert Friedland: Africa’s King of Copper
April 10th, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an in-depth article on Robert Friedland, whom many consider to be Africa’s king of copper: At the head of Ivanhoe Mines, the American-Canadian tycoon has established himself as one of the key figures in the world of copper mining. He entered the continent via the DRC in the early 2000s, […]
Read more »How the US Could Compete with China in Latin America
April 9th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary on how the US could compete with China in Latin America: As China became an economic superpower, its banks and companies planted five-star red flags all over the world. But nowhere has booming Chinese business caused Washington as much concern as in Latin America. “They are on the 20-yard […]
Read more »Belt & Road: Chinese Techno-Nationalism in Maldives
April 9th, 2024
Via Asia Times, a look at how the ‘Digital Silk Road’ has the potential of allowing China to play king of the castle in the Indian Ocean region: The Maldives’ recent turn toward China and away from India has boosted Beijing’s long-term push for regional control and disrupted New Delhi’s ambition to match Chinese strategic competitiveness in […]
Read more »The Dark Side of Clean Energy: China’s Copper Mine in Serbia
April 8th, 2024
Via UnHerd, commentary on a Chinese-owned copper mine in Serbia: A tiny hay-cart blocks the path to a vast Chinese-owned copper mine. From it hangs a hand-painted sign that reads “life before profits”, a message for Serbia Zijin Mining, the subsidiary of a Chinese conglomerate, which is seeking to build a road through a pretty […]
Read more »Is China Gaslighting the Developing World?
April 8th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, commentary on how Beijing’s promises of equality are actually a guise for hegemony: When Hanoi declared its support for China’s proposed “community of shared destiny” during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam last December, it was hailed by Beijing. China wants a post-American world order of its own design, and […]
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.