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The American mercenary behind Blackwater is helping China establish the new Silk Road

"China’s inexorable rise is helped by Trump’s retreat"


The next frontier. (By David and Jessie [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)

Is that an earthy photograph, or what!

Written by
Chris Horton

April 18, 2017

For years, China has groomed landlocked Yunnan province in its southwest to be the country’s strategic bridgehead into Southeast Asia, building highways and rail lines to its borders with Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar to one day weave them into a regional, and eventually, transcontinental transport network.

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.

https://qz.com/957704/the-american-mercenary-behind-blackwater-is-helping-china-establish-the-new-silk-road/

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Citic boosts stake in Erik Prince’s security group Frontier

Chinese state-backed conglomerate tightens grip on company of Blackwater founder


The investment by Citic Group in Erik Prince’s company, Frontier Services, is an apparent
vote of confidence by Beijing © EPA

Don Weinland in Hong Kong and Charles Clover in Beijing March 5, 2018

China’s largest state-owned conglomerate has expanded its stake in Erik Prince’s private security company with an eye to expanding operations across Asia, including western China and Pakistan
https://www.ft.com/content/97c14e0e-2031-11e8-a895-1ba1f72c2c11

Jeremy Scahill shares some on Erik Prince in this excellent video

Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Cabinet Shakeup, the Mueller Probe & the Iraq War 15 Years Later [The first part of this interview, i think, must be the bottom one.]

Published on Mar 15, 2018 by Democracy Now!
Extended conversation with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept. Scahill talks about Trump’s pick for
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Erik Prince’s ties to China, Trump’s ties to Russia and the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/15/jeremy_scahill_on_trump_s_cabinet [with embedded video, and transcript]
[further to the "Jeremy Scahill: Gina Haspel Should Be Answering for Her Torture Crimes, Not Heading the CIA" Democracy Now! segment included as the third item in the post to which this is a reply]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK89bEpNT0g [with comments]
.. reposted as the first in, Part 182, some of Russian meddling...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=140004140

The first part, looks like

Jeremy Scahill: Gina Haspel Should Be Answering for Her Torture Crimes, Not Heading the CIA

Published on Mar 14, 2018 by Democracy Now!
Trump has tapped CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace outgoing CIA Director Mike Pompeo, after Pompeo was named to succeed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Haspel was directly involved in the CIA’s torture program under George W. Bush. She was responsible for running a secret CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 where one prisoner was waterboarded 83 times and tortured in other ways. But she enjoys broad support, including from the intelligence community and Democrats in the Senate. For more, we speak with Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/14/jeremy_scahill_gina_haspel_should_be [with embedded video, and transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTMCiKmABOQ [with comments] [id.]
.. reprosted the third down in Part 181, some of...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139914658