As Belt and Road Forum Convenes, Time to Rethink Narratives on China’s Economic Coercion
Via The Diplomat, commentary on the need to rethink the usual narratives on Chinese economic coercion, and the related anxieties about its ability to weaponize trade, given that China hasn’t been [...]
Tanzania Targets 10-Fold Increase in Indian Investment by 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report on Tanzania’s efforts to drive investment from India: African nation expects Indian investment to jump to $3 billion India became Tanzania’s biggest trading partner in [...]
Malaysia Courts New Data Centers In Bid To Become Next SE Asia Hub
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, an article on Malaysia’s efforts – via cheap prices and tax breaks – to replicate neighboring Singapore’s success with data centers: With Singapore [...]
Mark Mobius on the Middle East’s Emergence as a Hotspot for F&B Investment
Via Caterer Middle East, commentary from Mark Mobius on the Middle East’s emergence as a hotspot for F&B investment; The Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia and the UAE, has rapidly [...]
The Dirty Business of Green Energy in Congo 
Via New Lines Magazine, commentary on the dirty side of green energy in the Congo: On the eve of a small town’s mining boom, New Lines investigates the disconnect among companies, the government [...]
How China Left the World Far Behind in the Battery Race
Courtesy of Bloomberg, an exclusive adapted excerpt from his new book , Akshat Rathi’s new book Climate Capitalism which explains the origin of China’s dominance in the battery market [...]

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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.