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Can't talk about neocolonialism in Africa without bringing up Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group (FGS), which uses paramilitary security forces to "make it safe" for the continued flow of Chinese infrastructural projects into Africa. The majority shareholder of FGS is the CCP.
Those who use data to present China as fostering growth through generous financing of infrastructure (Brautigam and crew) are of course silent on China's central role in the paramilitary violence of the neocolonial opening up of Africa for Chinese capital https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23792949.2019.1689828
Brautigam and red nationalists that use her work to argue that neoliberal China isn't a bad actor in Africa are regime apologists who could care less about Africans' experience of exploitation and oppression under the fist of US-China-led global capital https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/new-gold-refinery-in-drc-links-a-senior-employee-of-erik-princes-security-firm-to-a-close-associate-of-ex-president-joseph-kabila-and-a-reported-gold-smuggler-global-witness-reveals/
Ignoring the fact that China is knowingly funding/collaborating on US imperial enterprises (and vice versa) is idealism, not materialism and would be barely worth paying attention to if it weren't gaining so much ground under renewed binary Cold War logics https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/erik-prince-company-to-build-training-centre-in-chinas-xinjiang-idUSKCN1PP169
The old Cold War frameworks are obsolete. There is no "New Cold War" outside US-China joint propaganda. We're in an age of billionaires without borders colluding to fund their own transnational paramilitary private security forces to ensure the continued global flow of capital
Billionaire solidarity amirite? Second highest shareholder of Frontier Services Group is HK tycoon Johnson Ko, close business partner of Prince, director of Emerdata, which has overlapping directors with Cambridge Analytica's parent company, SCL Group. https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/cambridge-analytica-executives-created-a-company-in-2017-with-the-executive-director-deputy-b803f27f84a2
