Blackwater founder to train Chinese in OBOR-CPEC defence and security

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Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), co-founded by former U.S. military services contractor Erik Prince, said it had acquired 25 percent of a Chinese security training facility, the company's latest move to tap into China's Belt and Road development plan.

Security experts say Chinese firms face mounting risks as they expand along President Xi Jinping's modern-day "Silk Road" initiative to connect the world's second largest economy with the Middle East, Europe and beyond through infrastructure development.

Global security companies and their smaller Chinese rivals are looking for opportunities, offering to protect the pipeline, road, railway and power plant projects being planned, often in unstable regions.

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FSG said the deal for an undisclosed amount with the International Security and Defense College (ISDC) in Beijing, which it called the largest private security training school in China, would allow it to offer "world-class training courses" to Chinese companies.

Skills taught will include close protection, defensive driving, counter carjacking and cultural awareness, the company said in a statement sent to Reuters on Tuesday.

"We look forward to continuing to provide our clients with the security services they need to operate safely and confidently across the One Belt One Road regions," Prince, FSG's executive chairman, said.

FSG said it would not provide training on the use of guns at the facility, and all of its services were unarmed, but it would help source any armed personnel required for a project to authorized sub-contractors.

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Prince, a former US Navy SEAL officer and the brother of US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, was the founder of a US military contractor formerly called Blackwater that drew harsh international scrutiny and faced lawsuits for shootings and other conduct in Iraq.

He later co-founded FSG, a separate logistics, security and insurance provider.

FSG has a made strategic shift to take advantage of China's Belt and Road plan in 12 countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, its 2016 annual report showed. Its biggest shareholder is a unit of Chinese state-owned conglomerate CITIC Group Corp.

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Some Western diplomats have expressed unease about the Belt and Road initiative, seeing it as an attempt to promote Chinese influence globally. They are also concerned about transparency and access for foreign companies.

China has dismissed those concerns, saying the initiative is open for all and only about promoting development and trade.

FSG said it planned to set up an office in Xinjiang in China's west, the starting point for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a major project under the Belt and Road banner.


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[Imran Khan]

they were for sale china buy them simple

 

[Maler]

they were for sale china buy them simple

Wow....What a great u-turn in making and What a great example of Chini-Pakistani higher than Himalaya and deeper than Ocean friendship, which would now convert haram BlackWater to halal BlackWater for Pakistani establishment!!!!!

Imran Bhai you do remember that till 2010/2011 and before granting the god like all powerful status to RAW/NDS nexus by Pakistani establishment, It was the dreaded BlackWater who earned it first and ridiculed day & night in Pakistani media for 4-5 years. But now after golden touch of China, It would definitely become halal for Pakistan. It is going to enter Pakistan again and would be hailed as protector of CPEC & Pakistan.

 

[Mugwop]

^Poor guy feels threatened

 

[AMCA]

I am sure the Chinese would not hand the keys of their life line to these guys !! Period !! With all hatred aside, I am pretty sure both Pakistan and China have better security infrastructure to take care of their investments.

they were for sale china buy them simple

It has happened the other way apparently. These guys bought 25% stake in a Chinese Security training facility.

 

[The Accountant]

Read carefully its just training services to training center to chinese security agencies ...

You cannot expect to teach murders and black ops by a third party in an open training environment ...

You indians try to create hype out of everything ...

Wow....What a great u-turn in making and What a great example of Chini-Pakistani higher than Himalaya and deeper than Ocean friendship, which would now convert haram BlackWater to halal BlackWater for Pakistani establishment!!!!!

Imran Bhai you do remember that till 2010/2011 and before granting the god like all powerful status to RAW/NDS nexus by Pakistani establishment, It was the dreaded BlackWater who earned it first and ridiculed day & night in Pakistani media for 4-5 years. But now after golden touch of China, It would definitely become halal for Pakistan. It is going to enter Pakistan again and would be hailed as protector of CPEC & Pakistan.

First of all it is about training only ... secondly it has nothing to do with CPEC but with OBOR which is much bigger than CPEC and require such trainings ...