Egypt, China Discuss Prospects For New Chinese Industrial City
March 22nd, 2024
Via Zawya, a report on Egypt, China talks focused on establishing a Chinese industrial zone along the Mediterranean Sea to serve both the local market and exports to European and American markets: Egypt’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Ahmed Samir, recently met with Zhang Tao, the Acting Chinese Ambassador to Cairo, along with a delegation, […]
Read more »China’s Haishan Group Unveils Major Aquaculture Project In Angola
March 21st, 2024
Via Seafood Source, a report on a major new Chinese aquaculture project in Angola: On the eve of a visit to China by Angola President João Lourenço, a Chinese conglomerate announced a major investment in an Angolese aquaculture project. Haishan Group, a private Beijing-based construction firm, has announced its involvement in the construction of a 300-hectare […]
Read more »Why Angola’s Latest Visit to China Is Good for the G7
March 20th, 2024
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on Angolan President Lourenço’s recent visit to Beijing which took place amid the talk of growing global competition between the United States and China in the Southern African region: Whatever metric you are looking at, when it comes to Africa-China relations, Angola is typically close to (if not at) […]
Read more »Malaysia’s Forest City Went From Boomtown to Ghost Town
March 19th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on how China’s real estate collapse is sinking projects beyond its borders: On an island in the Singapore Strait, a thicket of apartment blocks peers mournfully over the sea. A corps of green-shirted gardeners dutifully tends the lawns and herbaceous borders along the roadside. A few cars slip along smooth […]
Read more »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 »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.