China And Central Asia: Trade And The New Silk Road Economic Belt
September 22nd, 2013
Via the Carnegie Endowment, an interesting look at China’s growing influence in Central Asia: China has come to displace both the United States and Russia as the great power with the most influence in Central Asia. Chinese President Xi Jinping just ran a ten-day victory lap through the region. Rarely has a leader of a […]
Read more »China’s Developing World Edge
September 15th, 2013
Via The Diplomat, a look at efforts to engage the developing world: Since Deng Xiaoping’s administration launched its Reform and Opening Up policies in the late 1970s, China has integrated hundreds of millions of its citizens into the global economy, resulting in poverty alleviation on an unprecedented scale. This is in no small part due […]
Read more »Ethiopia’s Broadband Network – A Chinese Trojan Horse?
September 8th, 2013
Via Foreign Policy, some commentary on Ethiopia’s recent decision to purchase broadband network equipment from ZTE: Ethiopia’s signing last month of a $800 million broadband network with Chinese telecoms giant ZTE has some pundits again focusing on Chinese economic espionage in Africa. The agreement calls for the establishment of a 4G broadband network in the […]
Read more »Optimism In Liberia
September 5th, 2013
Via How We Made It In Africa, a report on Liberia: “Everybody who has lived in Liberia for the past five years will tell you there have been a lot of positive improvements. In 2012, GDP growth was 9%, which is very high. There has also been an influx of foreign investors in almost all […]
Read more »East Africa’s Gas Discoveries
September 3rd, 2013
Via Future Directions International, an interesting review of East African gas discoveries. While written from the perspective of potential Australian investment, it provides a nice update on all the opportunities therein: Key Points Following large discoveries of natural gas off the coasts of Tanzania and Mozambique, equated by some to those on the North West […]
Read more »China And Myanmar: The Great Game Of The Gas Pipeline
September 2nd, 2013
Via Eurasia Review, an article on the China-Myanmar-South Korea-India gas pipeline project: The first phase of a China-Myanmar-South Korea-India gas pipeline venture was started in July 2013. Together, they will explore the resources of ‘Shwe Fields’. The pipeline will start from Kyaukryu port in Rakhine State on the west coast of Myanmar and enter China […]
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.