China’s Green Tech Giants Link Supply Chains To Southeast Asia
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at how – from Indonesia to Vietnam – ‘clean energy’ ties ASEAN more closely to Beijing despite South China Sea tensions Just a stone’s [...]
China’s Belt and Road Shows the High Price of Beijing’s Money
Via Bloomberg, commentary on the high price of the BRI: Birthdays are in equal parts celebratory but also inherently tinged with regret, for opportunities missed and mistakes made. All of which may [...]
Taliban Urge Japan To Invest In Afghanistan’s Minerals, Metals
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on the Taliban’s outreach to Japan for mineral investments: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have called on Japan to invest in the country’s [...]
Oz-Indonesia Tie-Up Could Break China’s EV Battery Supremacy
Via the Asia Times, a report on an alliance that could put Australia in global battery supply chains, make Indonesia an EV battery hub and support the US-led Mineral Security Partnership: Lithium-ion [...]
China To Stay Long in Power Sector of Kazakhstan
Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR), a look at China’s interest in Kazakhstan’s power and energy sectors: Power sector is one of the most attractive sectors of [...]
How Can African Countries Participate in U.S. Clean Energy Supply Chains?
Courtesy of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a new report examining how the combination of key mineral endowments in African countries and U.S. objectives to reorient clean energy [...]

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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.