The Final Countdown: Will Russia and Ukraine Renew Gas Transit Deal?
February 15th, 2024
Via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, analysis of the potential for Russia and Ukraine to renew its gas transit partnership: Extending the transport of Russian gas via Ukraine after 2024 would likely benefit both Russia and Ukraine. Stopping the flow of gas, on the other hand, would be painful for whichever side initiates it. At […]
Read more »Rwanda Offers Security and Business Deals in Bilateral Package
February 15th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a report on Rwanda’s bilateral security agreements which offer competitive business advantages, but at what (future) cost? Two buses chauffeuring journalists embedded with the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) exited Afungi airport in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique. The airport, situated inside the main camp of Total Energies, is where the French […]
Read more »India and UAE Agree on Trans-Continental Trade Corridor
February 15th, 2024
Via Arab News, a report on a new trans-continental trade corridor agreement between India and the UAE: Route under framework accord would connect India with Europe via the Middle East Agreement on India-Middle East Economic Corridor comes amid ongoing Gaza war India and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday signed an agreement on a trade corridor […]
Read more »What’s Driving Kim Jong Un’s New Regional Development Policy?
February 14th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at Kim Jong Un’s new Regional Development policy which acknowledges the severe disparity in living conditions between Pyongyang and the rest of the country – and the resulting public discontent: North Korea’s leadership recently announced a new regional development policy entitled the “regional development 20×10 policy,” which refers to a plan to […]
Read more »The Big Picture of Mexican Exports
February 13th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, a look at Mexico’s exports and recent data that suggest its pivot to Asia may pay off: Mexico’s economy made headlines late last week when the latest data from the U.S. Commerce Department showed that, for the first time in more than 20 years, Mexican exports to the U.S. surpassed exports from […]
Read more »The World Needs More Belts and More Roads, Chinese-Style
February 13th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, commentary from influential author Parag Khanna how the Belt and Road Initiative is exactly the blueprint needed in this age of uncertainty and instability: A new generation of Western doom-and-gloomers about China has emerged. Many point to admittedly serious problems, some of them chronic and structural, and argue the country […]
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.