Digital Silk Road: China-GCC Digital Economic Cooperation
Via The Middle East Institute, a look at China-GCC digital economic cooperation: The strategic rivalry between China and the US that has developed over the past decade includes a struggle for control [...]
Iran, Venezuela Sign Two-Decade Cooperation Deal
Via Al Monitor, a report that Iran and Venezuela have signed a two-decade cooperation deal: Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year deal on cooperation between the two allies subject to US sanctions [...]
China’s Southern Strategy
Via Foreign Affairs, a look at how Beijing is using the Global South to constrain America For the past decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping has endeavored to help China attain what it considers to [...]
Out of Africa: EV Battery Firms Look To Lock In Raw Materials
Via Week In China, an article on how African battery firms are working to lock in raw materials from Africa: “A skilled woman cannot cook without rice,” warned the Southern Song Dynasty poet and [...]
Future of African Oil and Gas
Via McKinsey, a report on how – with momentum for sustainability building – Africa’s oil and gas producing nations have a unique opportunity to embark on an inclusive energy transition [...]
Growth Engine: China To Build A New Railway Through Kyrgyzstan
Via Week In China, an article on China’s plans to build a new railway through Kyrgyzstan: When a new railway line through Kyrgyzstan last came up for serious discussion five years ago, the [...]

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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.