Saudi Arabia and China Flaunt Growing Ties at Investment Forum
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on a recent Arab-China business conference during which Chinese companies inked $10 billion in investment deals with businesses and government bodies in the [...]
China, Pakistan, and the Taliban: CPEC in Afghanistan
Via The Diplomat, commentary on China, Pakistan, and the Taliban from the lens of CPEC in Afghanistan: The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, [...]
Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub
Botswana has a $60 million digital and innovation HUB (BDIH), called the BDIH Science and Technology Park, which is located strategically on a 57 hectare site, near the Sir Seretse Khama [...]
Malawi’s Surprise Plan for Farming Through Climate Disaster
Courtesy of The Daily Beast, a look at Malawi’s plan to grow its dairy industry, one farming staple that could weather the climate crisis: Malawi is home to only 19.1 million people—a small [...]
Russian Plans To Export Gas To Uzbekistan
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on the latest status on plans to export Russian gas to Uzbekistan” Kazakhstan will be ready to provide infrastructure for the transit of Russian gas to [...]
Venezuela Has More Than Just Oil and China Knows It
Via National Interest, a look at why Venezuela’s mineral wealth is of particular interest to Beijing, and why the CCP is willing to invest heavily to ensure its extraction: On May 17, [...]

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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.