As China pushes ahead with president Xi Jinping’s ambitious $1 trillion One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative—which reimagines a historic trade network as an overland Silk Road Economic “Belt” and a Maritime Silk “Road”—protecting Chinese business executives and other personnel and their rapidly growing investments in the region is more important than ever.
Enter Erik Prince.
I don't know how much of this is substance and how much of it is hype. This Quartz article reads like something out of a J. Peterman catalog. But they're mercenaries, so I'm not shocked that they'll work for anyone. Might as well call out Blackstone group or Apple Inc or Bechtel for contracting with Chinese-backed domestic firms and denoting this as End of Empire.
If anything, this is a point in favor of American Empire. Guaranteed that Prince's organization is joined at the hip with :cia: and others, and more than happy to sell info on the Chinese to the US or the UK or the Israelis or anyone else.
Chinese businessmen and bureaucrats needing to outsource security to an American-based company run by well-connected American politicos does not reflect well on the Chinese state.
The American mercenary behind Blackwater is helping China establish the new Silk Road
I don't know how much of this is substance and how much of it is hype. This Quartz article reads like something out of a J. Peterman catalog. But they're mercenaries, so I'm not shocked that they'll work for anyone. Might as well call out Blackstone group or Apple Inc or Bechtel for contracting with Chinese-backed domestic firms and denoting this as End of Empire.
If anything, this is a point in favor of American Empire. Guaranteed that Prince's organization is joined at the hip with :cia: and others, and more than happy to sell info on the Chinese to the US or the UK or the Israelis or anyone else.
Chinese businessmen and bureaucrats needing to outsource security to an American-based company run by well-connected American politicos does not reflect well on the Chinese state.