Central Asia Accessing Pakistani Sea Ports that Bypass Afghanistan
May 29th, 2026
Via Jamestown, a report on how Central Asia is bypassing Afghanistan as a primary transit gateway to the sea: Executive Summary: Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Transport and Communications announced the successful implementation of a pilot transport project on the Kyrgyzstan–China–Pakistan route on April 24. The new 2,000-mile route through the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is […]
Read more »Welcome to Cryptostan: Kyrgyzstan and the Emerging Crypto Corridor
April 9th, 2026
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how Kyrgyzstan has become a de facto “crypto corridor” linking sanctioned Russian flows with trade in Central Asia and supply chains from China: In October 2025, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, together with Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) — who was appointed as a presidential adviser on digital assets — announced […]
Read more »The Politics of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway
March 26th, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a look at the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway: In late March 2026, during the celebration of the Central Asian new year, Nawruz, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov announced the latest target for the completion of China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway: 2030. “If now we live in a ‘dead-end’ country between Europe and China, with the completion of the construction of […]
Read more »How Long Can Kyrgyzstan’s Economic Boom Keep Booming?
February 17th, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a look at how sanctions scrutiny and overheating risks are threatening one of the few winners from the Russia-Ukraine war: When the coronavirus pandemic struck in 2020, entrepreneur Amantur Asanaliev doubted whether his newly formed logistics company, TLK Supplier, would survive, let alone thrive. Sure enough, the pandemic quickly devastated many Kyrgyz businesses […]
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 »Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Bury Soviet-Era Border Legacy With Landmark Treaty
March 13th, 2025
Via Havli, a report on the new agreement between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that has set the stage for a major surge in trade and the promise of a new era of Central Asian unity: And so, with a few pen strokes, one of the Soviet Union’s most pernicious legacies – the tangled borders of Central […]
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.