The Cable Ties to China’s Digital Silk Road
May 7th, 2024
Via the Lowy Institute, a report on the cable ties to China’s Digital Silk Road: Technological competition between the United States and China is transforming the physical connections that make up the digital world and its governance. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” eventually incorporated digital connectivity under the rubric Digital Silk Road in an effort to leverage […]
Read more »Why African Countries are Turning their Backs on Loans from Beijing
May 5th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a look at why African countries are turning their backs on loans from Beijing: Chinese companies are no longer the end-all, be-all of international funds for several African countries, including the DRC, Zambia, Angola and Cameroon. A new power dynamic is taking shape, with China keeping a more discreet presence by […]
Read more »China Woos Argentina, Bolivia and Peru to Advance Belt and Road
May 2nd, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Beijing’s efforts to advance BRI in South America: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met with counterparts from Argentina, Peru and Bolivia in the past week, as Beijing intensifies efforts to court Latin American countries through its Belt and Road infrastructure-building initiative. Wang met with Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino […]
Read more »China To Push BRI During Visits to Indonesia, Cambodia, and Papua New Guinea
April 16th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, an article on China’s top diplomat Wang Yi’s plans to push belt and road during visits to Indonesia, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea: Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to the three countries this week as Beijing steps up diplomacy with Southeast Asia amid US rivalry China is a top […]
Read more »Chinese Exodus Leaves Cambodia Boomtown with 500 ‘Ghost Buildings’
April 14th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how Sihanoukville has been saddled with unfinished projects due to casino clampdown and COVID: An exodus of Chinese real estate companies has left this Cambodian seaside resort littered with hundreds of half-finished projects. The concrete skeleton of one of these buildings stands on a piece of land owned by […]
Read more »The New Corridor Competition Between Washington and Beijing
April 14th, 2024
Via Carnegie Endowment, a look at the new corridor competition between Washington and Beijing, and how these groundbreaking infrastructure projects will shape cities and geopolitics: These corridors represent a new way of thinking about geography by tying countries, regions, and continents together in radically new ways via connective infrastructure—and offering the prospect of accelerated economic […]
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.