China’s Global EV Domination Is Just Beginning
March 8th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on China’s global EV domination: On a recent Monday, when a generically named Chinese ship called the Explorer No. 1 docked in the German North Sea port of Bremerhaven, it may have inaugurated a new era in the global economy. What was special about the vessel was not its 653-foot length, nor […]
Read more »Chinese Investment in Asia Rose 37% in 2023, Led by Indonesia
March 7th, 2024
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, an article on growing Chinese investment and construction activity in the Asia-Pacific region: Chinese investment in the Asia-Pacific region rose sharply in 2023, a new report shows, bucking global trends even as the world’s No. 2 economy sputters. The report by Brisbane’s Griffith University and Shanghai’s Fudan University shows that Chinese […]
Read more »China’s Latin American Investments Downshift To Smaller, More Strategic Projects
March 6th, 2024
Via China Strategy, a look at China’s Latin American investment strategy: Margaret Myers, one of the study’s main researchers and director of its Asia and Latin America programme, said that the years of large, high-risk projects have led to a reorganisation of priorities in Beijing. She believes that the Chinese economic slowdown has led several […]
Read more »Africa Needs China For Its Digital Development, But At What Price?
March 6th, 2024
Via The Conversation, a report on China’s role in advancing Africa’s digital future: Digital technologies have many potential benefits for people in African countries. They can support the delivery of healthcare services, promote access to education and lifelong learning, and enhance financial inclusion. But there are obstacles to realising these benefits. The backbone infrastructure needed […]
Read more »A Silk Road along the Milky Way? Why China Is Giving Satellites to Egypt.
March 6th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at how China – to expand its geopolitical influence around the globe – has embarked on multiple projects to shape the landscape of satellites and space infrastructure to its own benefit and become a more influential player in space exploration. These projects include launching its own satellites, building an alternative […]
Read more »The Maldives Is a Tiny Paradise. Why Are China and India Fighting Over It?
March 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on the Maldives, an island nation into which Asia’s two giants are crowding with building projects, tossing its newborn democracy to and fro: Between a few flecks of coral in the Indian Ocean, a ribbon of highway more than a mile long swoops up from the blue. […]
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.