How China and Angola Are Redefining Economic Ties for a Post-Oil, Post-Loans Era
March 18th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, a look at how China and Angola are redefining economic ties for a post-oil, post-loans era: Following decades of the ‘Angola model’ – oil-backed loans to access Chinese funding for infrastructure – Beijing vows to help modernise Angola ‘We addressed the problem of Angola’s debt to China … but also […]
Read more »The Pacific Power Game
March 18th, 2024
Courtesy of The Wire China, a look at how – with a new multi-billion dollar aid package agreed – the U.S. is trying to keep up with China in a strategically important region: The small island countries that dot the vast Pacific Ocean are sparsely populated and hard to pinpoint on a map. Yet in […]
Read more »Why Would Angola’s President Want to Go to China’s Shandong Province?
March 14th, 2024
Via China-Global South, commentary on Angolan president João Lourenço’s recent visit to China’s Shandong Province: Angolan president João Lourenço will arrive in China on Thursday to begin a three-day state visit, which will include meetings with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. The Chinese Foreign Ministry, as per usual, did not provide […]
Read more »The Evolving Landscape between China and Africa’s Economic Engagements
March 12th, 2024
China and Africa have forged a strong economic relationship since China’s accession to the WTO in 2001, but the number of Chinese workers in Africa dropped to a new low in 2022, continuing an annual decline since a peak of nearly 264,000 workers in 2015. Algeria and Angola have had by far the highest number […]
Read more »Cambodia to Divert Mekong Trade via China-Built Ccanal, Vexing Vietnam
March 12th, 2024
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on a planned Phnom Penh-coast link which is raising alarms amid regional influence tussle From his house on the banks of the Mekong River, an hour from Phnom Penh, Mao Sarin can watch ships laden with containers chug by on their way to Vietnam and the giant river delta. […]
Read more »China Goes Big on Laos Power Projects, Boosting Southeast Asian Sway
March 12th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on some new Belt and Road Mekong River dams to help Beijing secure renewable energy: Chinese state-owned companies are stepping up power infrastructure investment in Laos, including hydroelectric power plants and transmission, expanding their footprint in a country that aims to become the “battery of Southeast Asia.” The Nam Ou […]
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.