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A Tiny U.S. Territory in the Pacific Doubles Down on a Giant Chinese Casino
December 31st, 2025

Via The Washington Post, a look at how an unfinished casino resort project on Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands raises questions about money laundering and ties to Chinese criminals: The beachfront casino built here by a Chinese mother-and-son duo a decade ago was billed as a $2 billion investment, a resort […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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