The World Needs More Belts and More Roads, Chinese-Style
February 13th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, commentary from influential author Parag Khanna how the Belt and Road Initiative is exactly the blueprint needed in this age of uncertainty and instability: A new generation of Western doom-and-gloomers about China has emerged. Many point to admittedly serious problems, some of them chronic and structural, and argue the country […]
Read more »Pacific Nations Caught in China-U.S. Rivalry
February 12th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Pacific nations caught in China-U.S. rivalry, with PNG aiming for stable relations with both, while Palau awaits Washington funding: Pacific island nations are seeking to balance emerging economic opportunities against the risks of being caught in the crossfire of U.S.-China rivalry, as geopolitical competition intensifies in the region. Ministers […]
Read more »The New Great Game
February 12th, 2024
Courtesy of The Wire China, a thoughtful commentary the ‘New Great Game’ with a particular look at the economic prowess of China: The world has changed. Over the past decade, we have witnessed a distinct shift toward a renewed competition between the great powers. The bipolar struggle between the U.S. and China is the new […]
Read more »Mexico Is America’s Answer to China’s Belt and Road
February 11th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how growing economic integration with Latin America could help the United States avoid the fate of an aging China: Every now and then, a narrowly framed news item offers up glimmers of pathways toward the possible resolution of much bigger problems. And so it was this week, with […]
Read more »China Is Recalibrating Its Latin America Strategy
February 7th, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, commentary on China’s Latin America strategy: China’s influence in Latin America has inspired analysis, fascination and a fair amount of hysteria. Depending on whom you ask, it’s seen as everything from an opportunity for the region to rebalance its alliances and profit from Chinese ambitions to an economic invasion that puts the hemisphere’s […]
Read more »CPEC: Is the Belt and Road Initiative’s Crowning Project A Failure?
February 7th, 2024
Via Brown Political Review, analysis of the CPEC: In October, China celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with a global forum of partnered countries. The mood was triumphant, with China reporting that the initiative has resulted in as much as $1 trillion in financial assistance to its constituents. The event, however, glossed […]
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.