Driving Change: How EVs Are Reshaping China’s Economic Relationship with Latin America
September 28th, 2024 Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a report on how Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are navigating a new geopolitical moment. Some LAC countries are [...]
The U.S. Has a Better Offer for Africa Than Debt
September 28th, 2024 Via Foreign Policy, commentary on how the U.S. can be more strategic in its outreach to Africa given that Washington can’t outcompete Beijing-backed banks: This month, Chinese President Xi [...]
Kazakhstan: Well Positioned To Become Global Player In Green Hydrogen Industry
September 28th, 2024 Courtesy of Illuminem, a detailed analysis of Kazakhstan’s green hydrogen-water-food nexus:  Kazakhstan is well-positioned to become a global player in the green H2 industry. According to [...]
The Laotian Las Vegas
September 28th, 2024 Via Airmail, commentary on one reporter’s weekend in the Laotian Las Vegas, where an opulent casino lies at the heart of a vast human-, drug-, and wildlife-trafficking operation: In July, two [...]
A Strategic Win: Pakistan-Turkmenistan Gwadar Deal Redefines Regional Trade
September 28th, 2024 Via Eurasia Review, commentary on how the Pakistan-Turkmenistan Gwadar deal will redefines regional trade: As global power dynamics shift, Pakistan stands at the forefront of a new geopolitical [...]
China and US Compete for Control to Transport African Critical Minerals
September 27th, 2024 Via The Africa Report, a look at the growing competition between China and US for control to transport African critical minerals: What’s really behind China’s $1bn renovation of the Tazara [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.