What Russia’s First Gas Pipeline to China Reveals About a Planned Second One
Via the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a report on how Russia is now in a far worse negotiating position regarding a gas pipeline to China than in 2014, finding itself at the mercy of a [...]
Russia Returns To The Graveyard of Empires, Economically
Via the Asia Times, a look at Russia’s economic re-engagement with Afghanistan: Even as Russia struggles to achieve military and political success in Ukraine, its leaders have turned their [...]
Chad Nationalized all Assets and Rights of Esso Chad
Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on Chad’s recent decision to nationalize all assets and rights of Esso Chad: The President of the Transition of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, by decree [...]
The Tiny Kingdom Of Bhutan Secretly Held Millions Of Dollars In Cryptocurrency
Courtesy of Forbes, an interesting article on how the Himalayan kingdom has quietly been dumping millions of dollars into bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies: Among the world’s most isolated [...]
The Next Superpower Battlefield Could Be Under the Sea in Africa
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how U.S. assistance in developing tech infrastructure could help achieve Washington’s strategic and diplomatic goals by countering Russia and China: Submarine [...]
The Nigerian EV Entrepreneur Hoping To Go Head-To-Head With Tesla
Via MIT Technology Review, an article about a Nigerian entrepreneur who started with electric retrofits of community vehicles like motorized tricycles and now aims to bring electrification to [...]

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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.