Can Central Asia Deepen Multilateral Cooperation Without Institutionalization?
August 14th, 2024 Via The Diplomat, a report on the sixth consultative meeting of the Central Asian leaders concluded without a major breakthrough, but recent Kazakh-Uzbek bilateral agreements could be the key to [...]
Pakistan Sees Solar Boom As Chinese Imports Surge
August 14th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, an article on Pakistan’s solar boom: Nation becomes third-largest destination for China’s exporters Grid electricity use at lowest in four years after price hikes Pakistan’s [...]
China’s Railway Diplomacy On High Speed In Vietnam
August 14th, 2024 Via East Asia Forum, a report on China’s railway diplomacy: In Brief The Vietnamese government plans to begin construction on two high-speed railway lines in cooperation with China by 2030, [...]
Laundering Carbon—The Gulf’s ‘New Scramble for Africa’?
August 13th, 2024 Via International Viewpoint, critical commentary on the Gulf’s involvement in African carbon offset projects: In early November 2023, shortly before the COP28 summit opened in Dubai, a hitherto [...]
China Drives African Lithium Surge to Lock in Key Battery Metal
August 13th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, a report on how Chinese miners and refiners are driving a surge in African lithium output: African mines projected to account for 14% of supply by 2028 West is lagging behind China in [...]
The Sleepy Czech Town Helping Europe Compete in the Global Chip War
August 13th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, an article on a $2 billion investment by a US company which promises to create a tech hub in the Czech Republic and help modernize the country’s stagnating economy: The Czech town of [...]

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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.