The Belt and Road’s Future In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Via The Diplomat, a look at BRI’s future in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan: When the United States and its allies began evacuating from Kabul on August 15, as the Taliban entered the Afghan [...]
The Taliban Have Claimed Afghanistan’s Real Economic Prize
Courtesy of The New York Times, commentary on the Taliban’s control of border crossings: After their stunning capture of Kabul, the Taliban have tried to convey a sense of calm. Only days after [...]
The Afghanistan-China Belt & Road Initiative
Via Silk Road Briefing, a look at potential BRI routes exist along the Wakhan Corridor and via Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, but it is Pakistani access to Kabul that looks the better option – as [...]
Even Toyota Seemed To Know That The Taliban Would Take Kabul
Via Quartz, an article on the Taliban’s preference for Toyota products: When the Taliban rode into Kabul and captured the presidential palace on Aug. 15, it marked the return to power of one of [...]
Vietnam’s Covid Stumble Threatens Economic Boom
Via the Asia Times, an article on the potential impact of COVID on Vietnam’s economic growth: Vietnam risks giving the old investment adage “buy the rumor, sell the fact” a bad name as the [...]
Iran’s Chabahar Port And Bangladesh’s West Asian Reconnection Opportunity
Via Silk Road Briefing, a report on the potential for Chabahar to scale Bangladesh’s west Asian reconnections: For decades now India has made requests to Pakistan concerning the provision of [...]

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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.