China, Indonesia Sign $10 Billion in Deals as Prabowo Visits Beijing
November 16th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on new Chinese investment in Indonesia, including a controversial agreement on economic activities in areas around the Natuna Islands in the South China Sea: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto yesterday wound up a visit to China, his first since taking office last month, signaling an intention to maintain good relations with Beijing in […]
Read more »What A Shuttered Quarry Says About Mexico’s Investment Climate
November 16th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on how the forced closure of a US-owned site in Yucatán says about Mexico’s investment climate: The closure of a large US-owned limestone quarry in Mexico has jolted investors and the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship, in a case seen as a thermometer for the political and legal […]
Read more »Resolute Faces $160 Million Demand From Mali as CEO Detained
November 15th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on Resolute Mining’s crisis in Mali: Holohan and two colleagues have been held since late last week Government wants mining firms to renegotiate economic terms Mali is demanding Australia’s Resolute Mining Ltd. pay about $160 million to resolve a tax dispute after the government detained the gold producer’s chief executive, according to people […]
Read more »World Fears a Wider Trade War. Malaysia Sees an Opportunity.
November 15th, 2024
Via the New York Times, a report on how – with Donald J. Trump promising tariffs – Malaysia hopes a deal with Singapore for greater economic integration will strengthen its role as a China alternative: During his first term as president, when Donald J. Trump started a tariff war to pit the United States against […]
Read more »Vietnam’s Booming Korea Towns
November 15th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an interesting look at Vietnam’s booming Korea Towns: Peter Jung’s very niche enterprise would have been unimaginable just a short time ago in Ho Chi Minh City. Last year he opened Fill It, a high-end clinic specializing in scalp micropigmentation, a treatment for hair loss, serving the city’s South Korean population. “Of […]
Read more »The Belt and Road Isn’t Dead. It’s Evolving.
November 14th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at China’s evolving BRI in Latin America, where China is saying goodbye to big bets and bridges in favor of a new approach: Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Peru this week for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, during which he will inaugurate the deep-water port of Chancay, about […]
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.