On China, Can Marcos Succeed Where Duterte Failed?
January 10th, 2023 Via The Diplomat, an article on whether the new Philippine president’s efforts to navigate relations with both the U.S. and China: Yesterday, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. flew to [...]
BRI and The Role Of South Caucasus In Chinese/European Connectivity
January 10th, 2023 Via Eurasia Review, a look at the role of South Caucasus in China’s BRI-led effort to connect China and Europe: China’s Belt and Road Initiative In 2013, China’s president Xi Jinping [...]
The Demise of China’s Polar Silk Road
January 10th, 2023 Via The Jamestown Foundation, commentary on Finland and the demise of China’s Polar Silk Road: Introduction Only a short time ago, considerable enthusiasm existed in Finland regarding [...]
EU Project to Counter BRI Completed First Year in Disappointment
January 10th, 2023 Via China-US Focus, an article on the West’s efforts to counter China’s BRI: The Geo-Economics Battle  The race of geopolitical strategies based on infrastructural development abroad is [...]
With China’s Help, Nepal Chips Away at Its India-lockedness
January 10th, 2023 Via The Diplomat, a report that China has begun a feasibility study to build a railway line linking Kathmandu with Kerung in the Tibet Autonomous Region: On December 27, a team of Chinese experts [...]
Somaliland: Has Genel Energy Discovered Oil in Salaxley?
January 10th, 2023 Via Oil News Kenya, an article on Days after a war of words over the legality of Genel’s Energy license to explore in Somaliland one of the seven Federal Member States of Somalia (though largely [...]

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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.