Is China’s Belt And Road Already In Retreat?
January 30th, 2020
Via Forbes, an article on China’s BRI: When I first began traveling the corridors of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the spring of 2015, there was an almost ubiquitous sentiment of hope and excitement across the network. I would be paraded out to look at massive nascent logistics and industrial zones, new cities […]
Read more »Bangladesh: Economic Growing Pains
January 30th, 2020
Via East Asia Forum, an article on Bangladesh’s economy: Bangladesh began 2019 with a renewed hope that its newly elected government would bring in political and economic changes as promised in its election manifesto. Although the economy has maintained high GDP growth, electoral promises remain unfulfilled in several critical areas. Many old woes continue to […]
Read more »More TAPI Delays, This Time in Afghanistan
January 27th, 2020
Via The Diplomat, an article on how TAPI’s “progress” remains slow across Afghanistan: Not that the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline needs any more delays, but Afghan officials say laws on land acquisition for the project as it crosses Afghanistan have not been signed, meaning the project’s timeline remains as foggy as ever. According to a TOLO News report, the […]
Read more »Suriname: The Next Big Oil Player?
January 23rd, 2020
Via The National Interest, an article on how the Republic of Suriname might become South America’s newest energy power: The Republic of Suriname might become South America’s newest energy power. American Apache and French Total just announced the discovery or significant oil deposits offshore. Suriname is both poor and thinly populated. It also is highly […]
Read more »China Renews Its ‘Belt and Road’ Push for Global Sway
January 20th, 2020
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting article on how deals by Chinese companies to build ports, telecom networks and other infrastructure in poor countries have picked up, alarming some in the West: China’s big-money push to build ports, rail lines and telecommunications networks around the world — and increase Beijing’s political sway in […]
Read more »Chinese-Built Pakistani Port Begins Handling Afghan Transit Trade
January 20th, 2020
Via VoA News, a report on the newly opened Gwadar port: Pakistan’s newly opened southwestern Gwadar seaport has begun handling transit cargo headed to and from landlocked Afghanistan, marking a significant outcome of Islamabad’s multi-billion-dollar collaboration with China. Officials said the first ship full of Afghan cargo containers reached Gwadar on Tuesday. The containers […]
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.