China’s Belt and Road Chugging Along in Central Asia
November 17th, 2021 Via the Asia Times, an article on BRI activity in Central Asia: The information war is so intense nowadays that unsung melodies are often more alluring than the sung ones. The lines from English poet [...]
Cambodia’s Unique Version of E-Commerce
November 15th, 2021 Via The Diplomat, an article on Cambodia’s e-commerce landscape: E-commerce in Cambodia is not new. Systems for ordering online, and systems for delivering those items, have developed steadily [...]
Why Angola Struggles To Shake off Its Economic Dependence On China
November 15th, 2021 Via The South China Morning Post, an article on why Angola struggles to shake off its economic dependence on China: When João Lourenço was sworn in as Angolan president in 2017, there was a lot [...]
Venezuela: Home To Latin America’s Unlikeliest Super App
November 12th, 2021 Via Rest of World, an article on an unlikely superapp coming out of Venezuela: When Vicente Zavarce was first starting Yummy, Venezuela’s self-appointed “everything app”, he sought out other [...]
Bangladesh: Becoming An ASEAN+1
November 12th, 2021 Via Silk Road Briefing, an article on how the country’s mega projects are projecting the nation to be a major Asian ‘tiger’ economy by 2022: Bangladesh’s ability to both attract [...]
Digital Silk Road: China installed Himalayan Fiber-Optics Network
November 9th, 2021   Via The Asia Times, a report on China installation of a fibre optic network in certain remote locations of the western Himalayas, giving them new near-real-time ISR (intelligence, [...]

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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.