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Spotlight AFRICACHINA Issue 749 dated 16/12/2015

Erik Prince, Beijing's jack-of-all-trades in Africa

After training the counter-terrorist troops for Abu Dhabi that are now deployed in Yemen, (IOL 745), Erik Prince, founder of the ill-famed Blackwater, is trying to invent a Chinese version of the East India Co. Under the banner of his [...]

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