China Has Influence Over Ports Across Latin America
June 24th, 2025
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on a new Center for Strategic and International Studies report that found wider Chinese involvement in regional ports than previously reported: Chinese companies have built or operate 31 active ports in Latin America and the Caribbean, many more than previously thought, according to research by a Washington-based think-tank. […]
Read more »China, Kyrgyzstan, and the Quiet Construction of a Sanctions-Resistant Trade Corridor
June 20th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on how every dollar that moves from Shenzhen to Bishkek to Moscow teaches China something new about how to operate in a sanctions-constrained world: Kyrgyzstan is not merely a passive conduit in Russia’s sanctions evasion effort. It is a testbed. While policymakers in Washington and Brussels remain focused on punishing Russia’s known […]
Read more »Chinese Companies Set Their Sights on Brazil
June 20th, 2025
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how – confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe – Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names in Latin America’s biggest economy: Chinese companies urgently need to find new markets. Competition is intense at home, where the collapse […]
Read more »Chinese Investment Meets Fertile Ground In Morocco
June 9th, 2025
Via Global Times, a look at how Chinese investments meet fertile ground in Morocco’s automotive, aeronautics, textile, agriculture, aquaculture sectors: Editor’s Note: This year marks the 12th anniversary of China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Under the initiative, cooperation between China and Africa has entered the fast lane in recent years. Morocco is among the […]
Read more »China’s Gray-Zone Infrastructure Strategy on the Tibetan Plateau: Roads, Dams, and Digital Domination
June 8th, 2025
Via Center for Strategic and International Studies, a look at China’s gray-zone infrastructure strategy on the Tibetan Plateau: China’s use of critical infrastructure to control downstream water supply will threaten vital economic activities and life. China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will leverage rail and road networks to strengthen its positions near the Line of Actual […]
Read more »Beyond Geopolitics: The Domestic Drivers of China-Iran Cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative
May 23rd, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how the alignment of domestic socioeconomic interests is a key driver for continued Sino-Iranian cooperation, despite U.S.-led sanctions: More than a decade after the announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), its transformation of global supply chains and trade flows has garnered significant attention. Nevertheless, despite being identified as a crucial country […]
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.