A Silk Road along the Milky Way? Why China Is Giving Satellites to Egypt.
March 6th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at how China – to expand its geopolitical influence around the globe – has embarked on multiple projects to shape the landscape of satellites and space infrastructure to its own benefit and become a more influential player in space exploration. These projects include launching its own satellites, building an alternative […]
Read more »“There Is No CPEC in Gwadar, Except Security Check Posts”
March 6th, 2024
Via The China File, commentary on CPEC, China’s trade route through Pakistan which promised investment but faces regional backlash: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is one of the major spokes of Beijing’s multi-trillion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious attempt to remake global trade and transport infrastructure. CPEC’s terminus is Gwadar, a port […]
Read more »China To Build Kenya’s AFCON Stadium
March 3rd, 2024
Via NTV Kenya, news that Kenya has signed up China Road and Bridge Corporation to build a 60,000-seat stadium in Nairobi for Africa’s biggest sporting competition, the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). It comes ahead of AFCON 2027, which Kenya will host jointly with its neighbors Tanzania and Uganda. Kenya sports ministry The facility, set […]
Read more »China’s Polar Silk Road: Long Game or Failed Strategy?
February 28th, 2024
Via the Arctic Institute, commentary on China’s Polar Silk Road: The events of 2022 proved to be a year of great geopolitical changes. In February 2022, just days before Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Xi Jinping and Putin met in Beijing, where they discussed among other things the development of the Polar […]
Read more »Infrastructure Diplomacy The Key To China’s Influence In Africa
February 28th, 2024
Via East Asia Forum, an article on China’s strategy of gifting large-scale projects worldwide, especially in Africa, to establish itself as a modernization facilitator and gain international prestige: China gifted Zimbabwe a new parliament building in October 2023 — a US$200 million project financed and constructed by the Chinese government. This generosity is part of a […]
Read more »Hong Kong Eyes SE Asia and Middle East In Next Chapter of BRI
February 28th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, a report that Hong Kong is eyeing Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern business ties in the next chapter of China’s belt and road plan: Head of global trade scheme’s Hong Kong wing says city to concentrate efforts on countries in the two regions to ensure intermediate results ‘Some of our visits […]
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.