Australia, China and the Judgment of the Solomons
December 6th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the geopolitical and economic importance of the Solomon Islands: If you wanted to nominate a country in the world with zero strategic significance, the Solomon Islands might sound like a good shout. An archipelago of almost 1,000 islands in the southern Pacific with a total population of […]
Read more »China Funds Solomon Islands’ Telecoms Deal After Signing Security Deal
August 19th, 2022
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on China’s investment into the Solomon Islands’ telecoms sector: China’s Huawei has signed a deal to build 161 telecoms towers across the Solomon Islands in a sign of strengthening ties between the Pacific nation and Beijing just months after they agreed a controversial security deal. China signed a security […]
Read more »The Chinese Companies Trying To Buy Strategic Islands
April 15th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on the small businesses from China which are scouring the globe for important strips of land: Three years ago, Xu Changyu made his first attempt to get his hands on an island in the South Pacific. The vice-president of China Sam Enterprise Group quietly negotiated a 75-year lease […]
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.