Posted on 11/30/2021 5:17:44 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
August 11, nine Chinese workers were killed in a blast in Pakistan, the latest in the string of attacks targeting Chinese citizens. The incident highlighted the vulnerability of Chinese nationals and assets abroad and the need to improve protection and security for workers in foreign countries. As a solution, China has come to see private military companies (PMC) as an eminently necessary tool.
PMCs and Chin
Though first emerging in the 1990s, the need for Chinese PMCs became clearer from the 2000s onward. This is because threats to China’s international ambitions grew in tandem with the country’s economic impact and clout abroad.
These risks were particularly pronounced as China and its business community expanded their interests into unstable areas of the globe. For example, inroads to Afghanistan led to the killing of eleven Chinese nationals in the country in 2004. These types of threats were only amplified with the launch and spread of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 as hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals were employed on projects overseas. A series of unfortunate incidents involving Chinese workers across a number of African countries, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, East Timor, and, most recently, in Pakistan followed. Overall, these events seemed to loudly signal the need for more effective protection of Chinese assets and nationals.
As such, Beijing was keen to act. However, it remained behind its more advanced counterparts in the West and Russia.
For the Chinese to rival their counterparts, a greater level of professionalism has been required. Some efforts have been made to this end when, in early 2019, Frontier Services Group announced the creation of a “training base” in China’s westernmost province of Xinjiang.
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If all the books i have read are accurate Pmc companies are extremely profitable, and create govt deniability.
Honestly I am shocked it has taken China this long to realize and capitalize on this.
All Marxists are expendable, state profits are not.
how to stealth-plant an advance army, by Xinnie the Pooh
step one - start with a little country that has a lot of Chinese industrial workers and embed ‘security’:
China sends police officers to Italy to carry out joint patrols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhMER6adR0&t=4s
step two - use the possibility of social unrest in a little larger countries to enable embedding ‘private armies’
step twoB - identify and locate nationals who have fled Chinese persecution
step three - use the ‘acceptance’ of little and medium countries to push embedding in larger countries
step four - activate the trojans
Works until the families who control the companies bring it home. China has already had one Warring States period.
The southern, commercially oriented families centered on Guangzhou hate the bureaucratic northerner Xi who uses anticorruption campaigns to put his own people in positions to help themselves to the pile of loot.
The PLA is loyal to the Party, not the country. Not sure they’d like to see the competition, especially if it pays better.
Pei-Ping
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Personally, I like it.
Mercenaries historically are always so reliable.
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