How China Took Over the World’s Rare Earths Industry
Via the New York Times, an article on how China took over the world’s rare earths industry: China shook the world in 2010 when it imposed an embargo on exports of crucial rare earth metals to [...]
The Mine Is American. The Minerals Are China’s.
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how a Brazilian rare earths mine backed by American investors illustrates China’s grip over the strategic minerals that underpin the modern economy. The [...]
Africa Turns to Gulf States To Fill Gaps Left By China and The West
Via The Africa Report, commentary on the Gulf’s increasing investment interest in Africa: Donald Trump’s presidency is affecting China’s investment in the continent, but its pause is not a [...]
China Frets About Its Dependence on Africa’s Resources As U.S. Muscles In
Via South China Morning Post, a look at how China has heavily invested to secure raw materials from African nations, but US accusations over those deals pose new risks: A leading Chinese industry [...]
African Kingdom Lesotho Gives Starlink License in Overture to US
Via Bloomberg, a report on Lesotho’s recent decision to give Starlink a license to operate: Lesotho granted Elon Musk’s Starlink a 10-year license to operate its satellite network in the tiny [...]
Opinion: Save America’s Great Link To Africa
An interesting OpEd reflection on how the African Growth and Opportunity Act benefits the U.S. as much as it does the continent: Over the past 25 years, the African Growth and Opportunity Act has [...]

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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.