U.S. Should Bet on Bangladesh
December 24th, 2021 Via The Asia Times, commentary on the geopolitical importance Bangladesh has for the U.S.: Natural disasters, poverty and overpopulation are the reductive lenses through which many international [...]
How Argentina Pushed Chinese Investors to Help Revitalize Its Energy Grid
December 23rd, 2021 Via the Carnegie Endowment, a report on Argentina and Chinese investment: China has become a global power, but there is too little debate about how this has happened and what it means. Many argue [...]
Kenyan Flower Exports In Full Bloom
December 23rd, 2021 Via Logistics Update Africa, a report on Kenya’s cut flower industry: With a perfect all-year growing climate, affordable labour and access to temperature-controlled air freight, Kenya has all [...]
Pakistan-Iran-Turkey Rail Freight Line Reopens After Ten Years
December 23rd, 2021 Via Silk Road Briefing, a report on a newly resumed Islamabad-Istanbul rail service which will boost trade among the Economic Cooperation Organisation countries: The first freight train to run from [...]
New China-Backed ‘Green’ Industrial Zone On Borneo
December 22nd, 2021 Via Eurasia Review, an article on a new China-backed ‘green’ industrial zone On Borneo: Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo broke ground Tuesday on a U.S. $132-billion “green” [...]
Belt and Road: How Laos Exemplifies Preconditions for Global Success
December 21st, 2021 Via New Eastern Outlook, a report on Laos’ results from BRI investments: More than eight years ago, in September 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the launch of China’s global [...]

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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.