India’s Quiet Push to Steal More of China’s iPhone Business
February 3rd, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on India’s efforts to win more iPhone business from China: India is quietly grabbing from China more manufacturing of Apple’s iPhones and other electronics gear. It is happening in South Indian industrial areas on muddy plots that were once farmland. In Sriperumbudur, people call Apple “the customer,” […]
Read more »New Scamble for Africa
February 3rd, 2024
Via the Belt and Road Blog, commentary on Africa, China, geopolitics, and the Global South: This January, the foreign ministers of China and the USA went on a tour of Africa in quick succession. US government circles described it as a coincidence, although it is clear that the respective Chinese foreign minister is making his first […]
Read more »Russia’s Planned Power of Siberia 2 Gas Pipeline to China Hit by Construction Delay
February 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Russia’s planned gas pipeline to China hit by construction delay Construction on the Kremlin’s long-planned mega-pipeline connecting Russia’s western gasfields with China is expected to be delayed, the prime minister of Mongolia has warned, in a blow to Moscow’s plans to secure a new market for the […]
Read more »China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) In Southeast Asia: Progress And Challenges
January 31st, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, a look at China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) in Southeast Asia: This year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the BRI has become China’s flagship foreign policy to realise the Chinese vision of a “global community of shared future.”[1] […]
Read more »Chinese Firms To Invest $7B in DRC Mining Infrastructure
January 30th, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on plans by Chinese companies to invest up to $7 billion in Democratic Republic of Congo mining infrastructure: Chinese construction companies will invest up to $7 billion in infrastructure projects as part of an agreement over their Sicomines copper and cobalt joint venture in the Democratic Republic of Congo, they said […]
Read more »Thailand-China Railway Project Should Be Expedited, Chinese FM Says
January 30th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, an article on China interest in expediting the Thailand-China high-speed rail line, which would connect Bangkok to a recently completed line in Laos, and has been hampered by delays: China’s foreign minister has called for China and Thailand to expedite the construction of the high-speed railway project connecting the two countries, a […]
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.