Apple Got Rich in China. Other Asian Markets Offer The Next ‘Golden Opportunity’
June 15th, 2023
Via CNN, a look at how other Asian markets offer the next ‘golden opportunity’ for Apple: Apple launched an online store in Vietnam this week, in another nod to the growing importance of emerging markets for the iPhone maker. The opening on Thursday, which followed the high-profile launch of its first physical shops in India, […]
Read more »Revival of TAPI Pipeline Project Brings Serious Geopolitical Implications for Russia
June 9th, 2023
Courtesy of The Jamestown Foundation, an article on how the revival of the TAPI project has serious geopolitical implications for Russia: Turkmenistan and Pakistan continue their talks on the revival of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) pipeline, and a bilateral meeting on the issue in Islamabad will be announced soon—possibly in late June 2023. For its part, […]
Read more »6 Swing States Deciding the Future of Geopolitics
June 7th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at six middle powers of the global South: Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a rare foray out of Ukraine, spending almost one week in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Hiroshima, Japan. His goal: to win the support of Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia—four major fence-sitters on Russia’s […]
Read more »India and the Gulf Are Getting Cozy With Infrastructure To Counter China
June 7th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on an ambitious new project that aims to link New Delhi to the Middle East through roads, rails, and seaports: Last weekend, national security advisors from India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the United States met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh to discuss an […]
Read more »India’s Opportunity To Shape The New BRICS Moment
June 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, commentary on India’s opportunity to shape the new BRICS direction and prevent China from using BRICS expansion to grow its strategic influence in the developing world: In the current tumult of world politics, one would have expected BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) to follow the route of the South Asian Association for Regional […]
Read more »Brick By Brick, BRICS Building A New Bridge For A New World
May 30th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on how the BRICS are now a new bridge to a New World: Measuring BRICS in single decades, in 2001, BRIC started as an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China; Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill claimed that by 2050 the four BRIC economies would come to dominate the global […]
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.