The Nation is reporting that Frontier Services Group (FSG), a privately owned company that “help businesses operating in frontier markets overcome complex security, logistics and operational challenges,” will be opening new bases in China. “Bases?” You might ask yourself. “Why the word bases?” FSG’s executive chairman is Erik Prince, that’s why.
Prince, famous as the founder of the private military company Blackwater, renamed Academi, provides executive security services and specialized training. It is reported that the over 5,000 Blackwater employees were working in nine countries at the company's peak. But Blackwater changed its name and sold itself to other investors in 2010 due to its involvement in the Iraq War.
About the new operation in China, Prince told the Global Times that "in late 2016, FSG expanded its geographic focus from purely Africa to include the Northwest and Southwest corridors of the One Belt and One Road initiative." The Northwest corridor includes the countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Southwest corridor includes Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia," he added that "the planned new facility in China's Yunnan Province will allow FSG to be able to better serve companies in the Southwest corridor. Subsequently, FSG will open a training facility in Xinjiang to serve businesses in the Northwest corridor."
Erik Prince is also secretary of privatizing education Betsy DeVos’s brother and a Trump supporter this past election, writing all kinds of self-serving sludge in right-wing propaganda mills like Breitbart. Prince is kinda like the bizarro-world Rick from Casablanca, a mercenary but for fascism and against freedom and democracy.