Putin’s Silk Road Around Sanctions
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on Russia’s growing transshipment of Western goods viacountries like Armenia, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan? For about 1,500 years, high-value goods were moved from [...]
China’s Polar Silk Road: Long Game or Failed Strategy?
Via the Arctic Institute, commentary on China’s Polar Silk Road: The events of 2022 proved to be a year of great geopolitical changes. In February 2022, just days before Vladimir Putin launched [...]
Africa’s Energy Frontiers Draw Chinese Investors
Via Energy, Capital, and Power, a look at Chinese investment interest in Africa’s energy potential: As the continent’s largest trading partner, China has played an active role in harnessing [...]
Infrastructure Diplomacy The Key To China’s Influence In Africa
Via East Asia Forum, an article on China’s strategy of gifting large-scale projects worldwide, especially in Africa, to establish itself as a modernization facilitator and gain international [...]
Hong Kong Eyes SE Asia and Middle East In Next Chapter of BRI
Via South China Morning Post, a report that Hong Kong is eyeing Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern business ties in the next chapter of China’s belt and road plan: Head of global trade scheme’s [...]
Africa Needs China For Its Digital Development – But At What Price?
Via The East African, commentary on China’s involvement in many African nations’ digital development: The global market for information and communication technology infrastructure is [...]

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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.