OBOR: Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Global Economic Order
May 13th, 2017
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on China’s One Belt, One Road program: Chinese workers and engineers at a tunnel being created near Vang Vieng, Laos, as part of a $6 billion Chinese rail project that will connect eight Asian countries. Along the jungle-covered mountains of Laos, squads of Chinese engineers are drilling hundreds […]
Read more »Trilateral Cooperation Between Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan On The Belt and Road
May 4th, 2017
Via The Diplomat, commentary on how trilateral cooperation between Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan on the Belt and Road would benefit all three states: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is expected to be a “game-changer” in South Asia. Part of China’s ambitious Belt and Road initiative (BRI), CPEC is a $54 billion infrastructure development project that […]
Read more »The Central Station Of The New Silk Road Has Emerged
May 3rd, 2017
Courtesy of Forbes, a look at the Khorgos Gateway in Kazakhstan: Khorgos Gateway, a major new dry port that’s rising up from the desert in Kazakhstan’s eastern borderlands, has just taken the next step in the process of developing into the great crossroads of nations that it has been posited to become — a central […]
Read more »Georgia: The Black Sea Hub for China’s ‘Belt and Road’
May 3rd, 2017
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on some new investments (some not even involving China) that are making Georgia an attractive link between Asia and Europe: Ask anyone about the South Caucasus country of Georgia, and you’re certain to hear about its quixotic quest to join the European Union (EU) and NATO or the security […]
Read more »Mishandled China-Pakistan Economic Corridor could misfire
April 26th, 2017
Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Reconnecting Asia project, a look at how Islamabad may be attempting too much, too fast amid mounting debt problems: It has been a tumultuous two years in Pakistan and China’s regional interactions. Since it was launched on April 20, 2015, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has sparked praise, skepticism, […]
Read more »New Silk Road Or New Great Game? India Developing New Sri Lanka Port To Combat China
April 26th, 2017
Via Forbes, a look at Sri Lanka and India’s efforts to develop Trincomalee port in the northeast of Sri Lanka: As regional powers like China, Russia, Japan, and India vie for political and economic position throughout the eastern realms of Eurasia, many of the less powerful countries caught in the middle are employing what could be […]
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.