Sri Lanka Must Pivot To The BRICS For A New Dawn
September 21st, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the potential that the BRICS can offer Sri Lanka as economic and strategic partners: In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP and rival political parties alike had […]
Read more »Sri Lanka’s Central Asia Gambit
August 31st, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on why the Indian Ocean island state of Sri Lanka is making a concerted effort to build ties in landlocked Central Asia: On August 21, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sri Lanka, together with The Geopolitical Cartographer, a Colombo-based think-tank specializing in the Indian Ocean, organized a forum on Central […]
Read more »Sri Lanka’s Underappreciated Asset: Offshore LNG
July 29th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Sri Lanka’s development of its natural gas resources will help the country overcome its economic crisis, provide energy security, and lower carbon dioxide emissions: For now, Sri Lanka’s severe economic crisis seems to be in remission. Many challenges still confront the government and population, from a substantial national […]
Read more »Bay of Dreams: Why Isn’t Bay of Bengal An Economic Superpower?
July 22nd, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on the Bay of Bengal: It is the biggest bay on Earth—so big that five countries define the Bay of Bengal’s rim, among them India, the biggest country in the world by population, and Bangladesh, the eighth most populous. As such, the Bay of Bengal should be a natural and thriving […]
Read more »China’s Sri Lanka Refinery Alarms India
June 21st, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, a look at – in a move that will up alarms in India – China’s giant conglomerate Sinopec is entering Sri Lanka’s energy market with its inaugural overseas refinery at the Chinese-managed Hambantota port. Sri Lanka approved the $4.5 Bn investment in November: Doubtlessly, this strategic move flags Sinopec’s ambition to offset […]
Read more »Sri Lanka Leases White Elephant Airport Built With Chinese Loans
April 26th, 2024
Via Barron’s, a report on Sri Lanka decision to lease a white elephant airport built with Chinese loans: Sri Lanka said Friday it had leased a white elephant international airport built with Chinese loans to a foreign joint venture, as the island nation’s bankrupt government seeks to offload loss-making assets. The small airport near 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.