China’s BYD Steps Up Globalization Strategy with EV Plant in Uzbekistan
Via the South China Morning Post, a look at how China’s BYD has stepped up its globalization strategy with an electric-car plant in Uzbekistan targeting Central Asia: The Warren Buffett-backed [...]
The Fall of Russia’s Gas Giant Dulls a Key Tool of Putin’s Power
Via Bloomberg, a report on how Gazprom has lost much of its scare factor and its export ambitions are now chiefly in China’s hands: Russian President Vladimir Putin overplayed his hand by trying [...]
China’s Economic Stake in the Middle East: Its Thirst for Oil
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how China is the largest oil importer by far from Saudi Arabia and from Iran, highlighting the risk it faces if the war in Israel and Gaza were to broaden; [...]
U.S., EU To Support African Railway Development To Counter China
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, an article on U.S., EU to support African railway development in the mineral-rich corridor in Angola, DRC, Zambia as China’s Belt and Road slows: The United States and [...]
In Gear: Russia’s Lada Starts Drive Into Ethiopian Market
Via Semafor, a look at the Russian automaker plans to enter the Ethiopian market, injecting vitality into Russian/Ethiopian economic ties: The Russian carmaker Lada has become the latest in a growing [...]
China Courts The Taliban
Via Eurasia Review, a look at China’s efforts to court Afghan leaders: On September 13, China’s newly appointed ambassador to Afghanistan, Zhao Xing, arrived at the presidential palace in [...]

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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.