Can India’s Economy Thrive Without China’s Help?
August 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how India’s restrictions on technology and people from its rival risk stifling its ambitions to become a manufacturing superpower: At a testing facility near the town of Cheyyar in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state, a new generation of Mahindra Group vehicles are being put through their paces. […]
Read more »Get Ready For A Wild Ride? India’s Electric-Scooter Champion Goes Public
August 3rd, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on India’s electric-scooter champion going public: Two-wheeled vehicles are an integral part of life in India. They whizz over the country’s broken, clogged roads, carrying families and loads that would fill a small lorry. India manufactures about 20m of them each year, making it one of the world’s leading producers. It […]
Read more »India’s Chabahar Ambitions Amid Web Of Embargo And Secret Pacts
July 28th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on India’s Chabahar ambitions amid a web of embargo and secret pacts: Chabahar is India’s first significant overseas port project and has become a key part of New Delhi’s foreign policy. It aims to build strong ties with resource-rich Central Asia and Afghanistan. After signing a long-term agreement in May, New […]
Read more »How Apple’s India Gamble Paid Off
July 25th, 2024
Via Rest of World, a look at how India’s growing middle class is fueling a billion-dollar sales surge for Apple: It’s been just over a year since Apple opened its first flagship stores in India — first in Mumbai, and then a smaller store in Delhi. After years of watching Android dominate the world’s most populous country, […]
Read more »The ‘Corridorizing’ of Asia: Cooperation, Competition, and Consequences
July 25th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, an article on the intense competition, epitomized by competing “corridors,” is emerging in Asia and beyond between the U.S., China, and Russia: “Corridor” has become a ubiquitous buzzword in governance and analyst circles. To fully assess the meaning of “corridors” it is appropriate to fashion an outline of a definition. While the […]
Read more »Honda’s Made-in-India SUV Grabs Japanese Drivers With Low Price
July 24th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on the success of Honda’s new made-in-India SUV: With its low sticker price, Honda Motor’s new made-in-India compact SUV has been such a hit in Japan that the automaker in April and May was crowned the country’s top imported vehicle seller. The Elevate first hit Indian showrooms last August, then […]
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.