Why China’s Port Play Has Trump So Up In Arms
January 24th, 2025
Via Asia Times, a look at how China has invested billions in 129 ports worldwide, raising concerns the Belt and Road Initiative is quietly being weaponized: On his way to the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in November, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte to officially open a new US$3.6 billion deepwater […]
Read more »South America’s ‘Made In China’ Megaport Prepares To Transform Trade
November 13th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on how aBeijing-backed project in Peru poses strategic challenge to US as Donald Trump prepares to take office in January: Ahead of the ribbon-cutting at the Port of Chancay — a Chinese-built megaport on Peru’s Pacific coast that is set to transform regional trade — Chinese-made ZPMC unmanned […]
Read more »Peru New Megaport: Beijing’s ‘Playbook’ For Large Overseas Infrastructure Projects
November 9th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Peru’s new Chinese-built megaport: Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to inaugurate the $1.3bn Chancay port on the Pacific coast when he visits Peru for a summit in mid-November, amid growing concerns among US security officials that the facility’s size, depth and strategic location make it suitable […]
Read more »China’s Massive Fishing Fleet Overwhelms Peruvian Locals in ‘David and Goliath’ Battle
October 28th, 2024
Via the Wall Street Journal, a report on how one of the world’s richest fishing grounds is under pressure: For three decades, Francisco Chiroque’s livelihood has depended on the jumbo squid that flourish off this country’s Pacific coast in one of the world’s richest fishing grounds. This year, his catch has collapsed. Chiroque and the […]
Read more »China’s Expanding Influence in Peru: Balancing Economic Opportunities and Sovereignty
October 10th, 2024
Via The Asia Live, a report on China’s growing influence in Peru: Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to inaugurate the Chancay Port, a monumental infrastructure project located just 44 miles north of Lima, by the end of this year. This $3.6 billion mega-port, developed by China’s state-owned COSCO Shipping, will reshape the economic landscape […]
Read more »Blue Gold: The Sweet Story of Peru’s Blueberry Boom
September 12th, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on how Peru’s farmers have transformed the blueberry market in only ten years: Peru’s blueberry harvest is just beginning, and Ivan Jauregui, an agronomist, looks excited. At a farm he oversees about 100km north of Lima, the capital, workers are gently twisting the fruit from their bushes. Staff in a […]
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.