The Marshall Plan and the Belt and Road Initiative: More Differences Than Similarities
June 26th, 2022
Via The Atlantic Council, a comparative analysis of the Marshall Plan and China’s BRI: China’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often directly compared to the United States’ postwar Marshall Plan. The comparison is made due to the BRI’s scale, global infrastructure investment ambitions, and geopolitical and security ramifications. But how accurate is this […]
Read more »How China’s Belt and Road Diplomacy Could End The Ukraine Conflict For Good
June 26th, 2022
Via South China Morning Post, commentary on how Ukraine’s integration into the ambitious rail network linking China with Europe, by providing alternative routes bypassing Russia, would be acceptable to the EU and US: A post-war scenario in Ukraine that favours both Russian and Western interests is key to a sustainable ceasefire. China could be well placed to […]
Read more »The Backlash to Belt and Road
June 17th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on what some term a South Asian battle over Chinese economic power: When Beijing announced its One Belt, One Road initiative five years ago, the global reaction was immediate and pronounced. OBOR, as it became known, was hailed as a transformative effort to deploy China’s economic might in service of […]
Read more »Digital Silk Road: China-GCC Digital Economic Cooperation
June 11th, 2022
Via The Middle East Institute, a look at China-GCC digital economic cooperation: The strategic rivalry between China and the US that has developed over the past decade includes a struggle for control of the global digital economy, particularly the digital infrastructure and information communications technology (ICT) markets. In recent years, China has become a global […]
Read more »China’s Southern Strategy
June 10th, 2022
Via Foreign Affairs, a look at how Beijing is using the Global South to constrain America For the past decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping has endeavored to help China attain what it considers to be its rightful position at the center of the world stage. To do this, Xi—along with the rest of China’s leadership—is attempting […]
Read more »Out of Africa: EV Battery Firms Look To Lock In Raw Materials
June 10th, 2022
Via Week In China, an article on how African battery firms are working to lock in raw materials from Africa: “A skilled woman cannot cook without rice,” warned the Southern Song Dynasty poet and historian Lu You, in what has become a famed Chinese saying. The country’s media has been deploying that idiom again this […]
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.