China To Finance Manufacturing Two High-Speed Trains In Iran
November 15th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, a report that two high-speed trains will be manufactured in Iran with Chinese investment: Iran’s deputy minister of roads and urban development on Sunday said two high-speed trains will be manufactured in Iran with Chinese investment. Iran has proposed the developing and equipping of Iranian ports to Chinese investors, Shahriar Afandizadeh said. Pointing to […]
Read more »New Airport Shows Cambodia Can Get What It Wants From China
November 13th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary arguing that Cambodia’s new Siem Reap hub proves there is more to the BRI than debt traps: Cambodia’s newly inaugurated Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport offers an important window into how China’s Belt and Road Initiative is evolving and what it can still bring to developing countries. Last month’s Belt and Road Forum […]
Read more »The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway: Indonesia’s Lessons Learned
November 13th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, an article on lessons Indonesia learned from the Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway project: It would be an understatement to say that October was a momentous month for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing celebrated the initiative’s 10th anniversary by holding the third Belt and Road Forum; around the same time, its […]
Read more »China Loaned Pakistan $21B More Than Reported
November 9th, 2023
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on China’s loans to Pakistan, the nation which has the world’s largest Chinese-funded energy portfolio Two decades of Chinese lending to Pakistan totaled about $21 billion more than previously thought, a study revealed this week, while also showing that the cash-strapped South Asian country has the biggest China-funded energy […]
Read more »Unwavering Allies: The China-Syria Strategic Partnership
November 9th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, a look at the China-Syria strategic partnership: Although not over yet, the year 2023 will go down in world history as an important year marked by wars in Ukraine, the Holy Land and Nagorno-Karabakh, the rise of anti-colonialist movements in Africa 2.0, major weather disasters and political instability. When looking at influential […]
Read more »Afghanistan Shows Gap Between BRI Rhetoric and Reality
November 9th, 2023
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, commentary on how China’s BRI has not brought stability to Afghanistan but, instead, requires it: China’s close embrace of the Taliban was on display once again at last month’s Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, where acting Minister for Industry and Commerce Nooruddin Aziz represented the government in Kabul that no […]
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.