China’s Secret Mercenary Army Exposed

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"State owned, private security companies" Well... that's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one

“I learned it by watching you!” Aw man, that hits right in the feels. The truth hurts.

The China and USA "I learned it by watching you" bit legit had me cracking up for a minute

I worked for Triple Canopy for close to 4.5 years after finishing up one re-enlistment in the 82nd 1st/504th as an 11B and talking to quite a few of the PMC’s in our AO as I was blown away by their pay scale and it’s not like these guys were all SF qualified shooters with beards that qual expert, they were 11B’s from the various units just like me. During my time with TC I firmly believe that we were able to successfully change the strategic environment of the AO’s that we were operational in as well as routinely being able to achieve objectives in an exponentially faster manner than it would take an infantry platoon to. After TC I worked for a few smaller, but well respected firms before finding a home at 4GS where I currently work. The one thing I can tell you from my experiences in the world is that China does not have quantifiable real world combat experience, which in turn creates leaders, it forces you to train and kit differently out of necessity and survival, when you have large former state sponsored militaries that downsize there’s always an influx into the PMC world. I can promise you that regardless of the Geneva Convention, well known American PMC groups were utilized in illegal ways, although they were actions that directly supported coalition forces and their mission objectives. Ever since Executive Outcomes came out of nowhere and forced 20,000+ strong RUF rebels to the negotiating table with a little over 100 shooters people started to take notice, the UN spent close to $75,000,000 rotating peace keeping forces into the Congo and their presence had little to no effect, the RUF continued raping and pillaging daily because what needed to be done wasn’t peace keeping but an offensive campaign to liquidate and cripple the groups existence.

From the 70s to the 90s, my Dad built oil wells and water desalination facilities in the 3rd world for Mobile Oil and Bechtel Corp. They had former SAS and US SF guys defending their job sites in places like Northern Africa.

"They haven't gone full blown CIA yet." Entire video for a single punchline... worth

Private security companies are ubiquitous around the world. Even a small nation like Singapore has them. The main question is, how many of these Chinese security companies have interfered with the politics of the sovereign nations or have helped to overthrow the foreign governments on behalf of their intelligence agencies? From records so far, answer seems to be none.

Your stuff keeps getting better every time you post, keep it up man!

Glad you covered this, they have been growing their military a lot this way.

The quality of content on this channel has shot through the ROOF this year. Thank you for creating content on and from a unique perspective. This is dope, thank you.

Great content. Just subscribed. I’d say roughly two out of five channels I come across are actually worth watching. Nice work, man.

Probably your best video so far..thanks for what you do! Much love and respect from North Devon, England x

Chris, you do very decent geopolitical presentation. Love your previous military/weapons-focused vids as well. But have to tell ya, this is very decent, well-rounded, and a balanced, question-raising content! My highest esteem :) I remain your fan!

Japan was doing the same thing from the start of their boom years in the '70s until their economic collapse in the '90s. It was always seen as "graduation" for those picked from the Self Defense Force to be brought into the "real" corporate security military. South America saw a lot of this in particular. At one point there were more "former" Japanese soldiers in Chile than Chilean soldiers. This became an issue for the US in the late '80s and a few attempts by Japanese corporations to purchase ports in the US were thwarted by a brand new laws targeting heavily armed corporate security by restricting the weapons security forces were allowed to use.

Excellent topic and video Chris, it’s one of your best.

"I learned it from watching you! Okay!" Dude, I laughed so hard at that.

The main issue of developing nations is that they don’t have the infrastructure to create the training nor the capital to attract/retain the skilled workforce. Even if they manage to train out some highly skilled workers by focusing resources, they’d get siphoned off to other countries really quickly because they’d get paid way more. China doesn’t have to negotiate good rates for these countries since no body else can compete with them in terms of available cash and risk tolerance. I’m sure those 80+ countries all understand this and aren’t just taking out loans for no reason.

Went to college with a Ghanian dude: said it was like the wild West with Chinese companies having their own armies unaccountable to local police. They mostly drove recklessly around in jeeps w guns, he said.

Seems our 'average infantry man' has done more than just a little homework and studied geopolitics, diplomacy, economics and strategy. All that while in the back of a Stryker. Not so average after all. Great job! Love this content as much as the old school weapons videos.