China Is Reshaping Global Development. Is That Good for the Planet?
April 5th, 2025 Via Inside Climate News, at look at how China is deploying low-carbon investments through its $1.3 trillion Belt and Road Initiative. But many of these projects come with risks of their own. Case in [...]
Namibia Holds Talks With Russia Over Nuclear Energy Partnership
April 5th, 2025 Via Bloomberg, a report on Russian interest in Namibia’s uranium sector: Namibia’s President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah held talks with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev seeking to boost [...]
The Global Copper Race Heats Up: India Moves into Zambia’s Mining Sector
April 5th, 2025 Via MetalMiner, a report on India’s growing interest in African copper: Much like neighboring China has been doing for decades, India is now making inroads into the African continent to mine [...]
China’s Expanding Footprint in Uzbekistan
April 1st, 2025 Via The Diplomat, a look at how Tashkent is seeking to maintain strong economic ties with Beijing while addressing public concerns about their possible impacts on the country’s sovereignty: [...]
China Is Already Pushing Back Against Trump in Panama and Latin America
March 31st, 2025 Via World Politics Review, a report on how China is pushing back against the U.S. in Panama and Latin America: This week, a consortium of U.S. companies led by Blackrock was supposed to complete the [...]
Will Trump Buy “Ports for Peace”?
March 31st, 2025 Via The Middle East-Told Slant, commentary on the potential for a transformational port-and-logistics project in Gaza: As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enters yet another bloody phase, and Trump [...]

ABOUT
WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.