China to Woo Partners at ‘Digital Silk Road’ Forum Amidst Increasingly Divided Cyberspace
April 4th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, a report on China’s plans to woo belt and road partners at ‘digital silk road’ forum in April amid an increasingly divided cyberspace: The Digital Silk Road Development Forum will kick off on April 16 in Xian, capital of western Shaanxi province With China at odds with Western countries in data […]
Read more »Saudi Aramco: Pipeline of Power
April 4th, 2024
Via Fortune, an examination of how Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company over the past decade, are helping the Saudi monarchy shake up the global economic order: For generations, the city of Cannes in the South of France has been famous for its glitzy film festival, where the world’s movie stars strut down the […]
Read more »Locals Slam Zimbabwe for Turning a Blind Eye to Chinese Miner’s Violations
April 3rd, 2024
Via Mongabay, a report on the Bikita Minerals lithium mine in Zimbabwe where local communities accuse the government and Chinese mining company Sinomine Resource Group of sidelining environmental and social standards in the scramble for lithium: At the end of November last year, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Sinomine Resource Group chair Wang Pingwei walked […]
Read more »A Building Boom in the Himalayas Threatens Climate Disasters
April 3rd, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a sobering report on how Modi’s push to develop along India’s tense border with China heightens risks to the already fragile area: On January 3, 2023, cracks suddenly spread over hundreds of buildings in Joshimath, India, and they started sinking into the ground. Residents gathered up what furniture and prized belongings they […]
Read more »Nigeria’s Film Scene Is Blowing Up and The World Is Finally Tuning In
April 3rd, 2024
Via Tech Safari, a look at Nigeria’s rapidly growing film industry: When you go after bad guys who have nothing to lose, only two things can happen: You win, or you pay. Paul Edima paid… and then he won. When corrupt policemen kill his only son, Paul is left with no choice but to return […]
Read more »How Jared Kushner’s Luxe Hotel Scheme Ignited a City Rebellion
April 3rd, 2024
Via Daily Beast, an article on a proposed development in Serbia, that has critics lambasting it as a government effort to curry favor with Donald Trump. A luxury real estate venture backed by Jared Kushner in Serbia has stoked fierce opposition from public officials and civilians who have accused Kushner of cultural insensitivity over the […]
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.