Indonesia’s China-Powered ‘Ecocity’ Not So Clean or Green
October 25th, 2023
Via the Asia Times, a look at the dirty side of clean energy in Indonesia where citizen face eviction over a China-backed plan to turn their island into a solar panel ‘ecocity’: I first visited Rempang island in the summer of 2022. Greeting me were lush fields lined with coconut and banana trees, picture-book fishing […]
Read more »The China-West Lithium Tango in South America
October 24th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how – despite the push toward decoupling – China-West collaboration persists in South America’s Lithium Triangle. But in the age of strategic competition, how long will this last? In the vast, almost haunting expanse of the high Argentine desert, beneath layers of brine and time, lies an element […]
Read more »China Announces Major Steps To Support High-Quality BRI Cooperation
October 21st, 2023
Via Global Times, a report on Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday announced eight major steps China will take to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. First, China will build a multidimensional Belt and Road connectivity network, Xi said in a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for […]
Read more »China National Chem to Build Angola’s $6 Billion Lobito Refinery
October 19th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report that China National Chemical Engineering will build Angola’s $6 Billion Lobito refinery: Angola will sign a contract with China National Chemical Engineering Co. on Friday to build the long-delayed $6 billion plant in Lobito. “The processing capacities of the Lobito refinery remain at 200,000 barrels per day and the estimated cost of the […]
Read more »China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Taliban’s Economic Dreams
October 18th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, commentary on how the specter of insecurity in Afghanistan has been replaced by a lack of governance and widespread incompetence. Investors from China or any other country can be expected to be deeply wary; On October 17 and 18, leaders, delegations and representatives from more than 130 countries gathered in Beijing for […]
Read more »China Invested $1 Trillion to Gain Global Influence. Can That Go On?
October 17th, 2023
Courtesy of New York Times, a look at China’s BRI: China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, founded the Belt and Road Initiative a decade ago to use the country’s economic might to enlarge its geopolitical heft and counter the influence of the United States and other industrialized democracies. China has since disbursed close to $1 trillion […]
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.