Five Significant MENA Belt And Road Projects
February 3rd, 2021 Via Silk Road Briefing, a look at some significant MENA-based BRI projects: The MENA region – the Middle-East and North Africa – has also been targeted as part of Beijing’s Belt & Road [...]
Afghanistan-Uzbekistan-Pakistan Railway Line Mapped Out
February 3rd, 2021 Via Ariana News, a report on a planned Afghanistan-Uzbekistan-Pakistan railway line: Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan on Tuesday signed an agreement for a landmark railway link aimed at [...]
China’s Pakistan Investments A Double-Edged Sword
February 2nd, 2021 Via The Asia Times, a report on how Chinese investment is unmistakably transforming Pakistan but local resistance is rising to all the asset buying and building: Chinese companies are taking over [...]
Papua New Guinea and China’s Debt Squeeze
February 2nd, 2021 Courtesy of The Diplomat, commentary on how PNG’s telecom industry is a showcase example of how debt to China weighs down governments and constrains choices: The discussion of China, debt, and [...]
China Builds Digital Silk Road in Pakistan to Africa and Europe
February 1st, 2021 Via Nikkei Asia, a report on how China is helping Pakistan untangle its growing number of communications lines, connecting Xinjiang and Africa with a fiber optic submarine cable: China is set to lay [...]
Turkmenistan’s Slow March Towards A Market Economy
February 1st, 2021 Via Eurasianet, a report on Turkmenistan’s slow march towards a market economy: The job of driving Turkmenistan’s march toward the market economy lies with the parastatal Union 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.