CPEC: Pakistan’s Expensive Gamble
January 17th, 2017
Courtesy of The Gulf News, commentary on how some senior economists in Pakistan are now increasingly voicing their concern over the terms ?of financing from China for CPEC initiatives: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) launched formally during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Islamabad in 2015 symbolises the enduring China-Pakistan friendship. The implementation of the […]
Read more »China’s New Silk Road: Getting Muddy
January 14th, 2017
Via the Chicago Tribune, commentary on China’s OBOR initiative: With the future of U.S.-China relations an open question for the incoming Donald Trump administration, many have focused on whether the president-elect’s promise to withdraw from negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will enhance Beijing’s growing influence in East Asia. But rather than hand-wringing over TPP’s […]
Read more »China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Promoting Connectivity, Development Along Ancient Route
January 2nd, 2017
Via China Daily, an overview of China’s One Belt and Road plan: More than three years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. Looking back at 2016, the Belt and Road Initiative has gained fruitful early achievements, promoting connectivity and opening up possibilities […]
Read more »Inside China’s Global Spending Spree: OBOR
December 18th, 2016
Courtesy of Fortune Magazine, a detailed look at China’s One Belt One Road spending plans: “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $3 trillion infrastructure building campaign, could be a windfall for some Western companies and investors. The high-rise coastal city of Dubai plays host to all kinds of luxury oddities: indoor ski slopes, gold-bar vending machines, […]
Read more »Global Implications of Economic Corridors in China and ECO Countries
December 16th, 2016
Via the Business Recorder, a look at trade corridors in Central Asia: Economic history of Central and South Asia is largely associated with the connectivity of trade and natural and human resources among the peoples of Central and South Asian countries. The silk rout and the Grand Trunk road (famously known as ‘GT Road’ in […]
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.