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 [...]
Philippines’ Biggest Fast-Food Brand Has Fresh Plans To Challenge Starbucks
August 13th, 2024 Via Forbes, an article on how Billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong’s Jollibee Foods, run by his brother Ernesto Tanmantiong, is spending big to expand its coffee sales around the world: Jollibee [...]

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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.