Beijing Is Going Places: Expanding Trade and Building Naval Bases
July 28th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on potential locations for China’s next overseas base, locations which often also mirror commercial interests: China famously built its first overseas base, a launchpad for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), in Djibouti in 2017. Where will it build the next one? To answer that question, the authors drew […]
Read more »Beijing and Washington Are Battling Over Africa’s Green Future
May 24th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how the global energy transition depends on building partnerships with African states. In March 2023, three renewable energy players—Conjuncta from Germany, Infinity from Egypt, and Masdar from the United Arab Emirates—signed an agreement with Mauritania’s government to develop a colossal green hydrogen project in the country, worth a […]
Read more »Green Hydrogen Hype Puts Mauritania On The Map
July 2nd, 2022
Via fDi, an article on Mauritania which is pinning its hopes on a green hydrogen project five times the size of its economy: One of the least visited countries in the world, Mauritania is being thrust into the spotlight through various green hydrogen project announcements. The biggest of these is Australian CWP Global’s Aman project […]
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.