Will Mongolia’s Crackdown On Graft Unlock Its Mineral Riches?
July 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a detailed look at how Mongolia is making sweeping reforms to win over western investors and become less reliant on China and Russia: Thirteen hundred metres beneath the vast Gobi Desert, the heat, dust and a sense of claustrophobia are unshakeable after a rapid trip down a mine shaft in […]
Read more »Mongolia In The Middle: China and Russia May Split Over the Allure of Renewables
June 30th, 2023
Via The Interpreter, commentary on how Mongolia – with an abundance of solar and wind power – is set to impact Sino-Russian relations: Mongolia, sandwiched as it is between China and Russia, the world’s two most powerful authoritarian states, is unlucky. Its rich solar and wind potential may prove to be a curse, not a […]
Read more »Russia and Mongolia: Potential Economic Projects
April 11th, 2023
Via New Eastern Outlook, an article on potential economic projects between Russia and Mongolia: Legally, ties between Russia and Mongolia currently stand at a level of Comprehensive and Strategic Partnership, which they did so following the signing of an indefinite treaty of friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership in 2019 by the leaders of the two […]
Read more »Mongolia Puts Faith In Chinese Railway To Boost Covid-Battered Economy
November 29th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Mongolia’s hopes that a Chinese railway will help boost its Covid-battered economy: Mongolia opened a new rail line to China on Friday that the landlocked country’s prime minister said would help it weather the zero-Covid controls that have disrupted cross-border trade with its powerful neighbour. “The opening of […]
Read more »How Mongolia Is Handling Its Mining Bonanza
September 9th, 2022
Via Global Asia, a look at how Mongolia’s dependence on mining has intensified in recent decades: Is Mongolia’s prosperity being built at the expense of its future stagnation? A growing number of experts believe that the country is becoming over-reliant on mining-led growth. Making matters worse, the government is only saving a measly one cent […]
Read more »Power of Siberia 2 Will Divert Russia’s Europe-Bound gas To China
July 22nd, 2022
Via The Asia Times, an article on how the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline will divert Europe-bound gas to China: The construction of a second gas pipeline linking Russia and China is expected to commence within two years, a megaproject that will put Mongolia in the middle as the pipe is designed to pass through its […]
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.