Competitive Connectivity: Transatlantic Responses to China’s BRI
September 25th, 2022
Via Center for a New American Security, a detailed report on how the West can counter China’s BRI: China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—originally called “One Belt, One Road”—nine years ago, pledging to use its vast financial resources and construction capacity to build roads, railways, ports, and other infrastructure across the world. Beijing […]
Read more »Chinese Technology: Mixed Blessing for MENA Countries
September 25th, 2022
Via East Asia Forum, an article on the impact that Chinese technology has on MENA states: China’s growing influence in the global technological market reflects Beijing’s ambition to be a leading player in digital technology. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for China to dominate advanced technology manufacturing by 2025. The Digital Silk Road (DSR), […]
Read more »China’s Footprint In Latin America
September 25th, 2022
Via the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies, a report on China’s footprint in Latin America: Latin America’s external relations have historically been shaped mainly by the region’s relationship with the United States and Europe. In contemporary times, China has been interested in the region since the Cold War period. Until the late 1990s, relations […]
Read more »Will China’s Digital Silk Road Interfere With Countries’ Critical Infrastructure?
September 25th, 2022
Via the Clingendael Institute’s China Center, commentary on China’s Digital Silk Road: Since the introduction of the Digital Silk Road as part of the BRI in 2015, China’s presence internationally has taken a digital turn. Beijing aspires to set global standards for technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. These efforts as part of […]
Read more »China’s BRI and Neoglobalization In East Africa
September 24th, 2022
Via an scholarly examination of China’s BRI strategy in East Africa as a particular variegation of transnational state capitalism and neoglobalization: ABSTRACT The most significant case of transnational state capitalism today is China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which seeks to expand/extend the country’s geoeconomic and geopolitical integrations globally. We conceptualise the BRI as manifest […]
Read more »South Sudan Hopes Planned Port in Djibouti Will Increase Market Access, Profits
September 24th, 2022
Via AllAfrica, a report on South Sudan’s hopes that a planned port in Djibouti will increase market access and profits: Officials in South Sudan confirmed this month they have bought land on the coast of Djibouti to build a port. South Sudan says the port will be key for exporting the country’s crude oil, which currently […]
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.