China’s Private Security Companies in the Middle East: Commercial Actors, Strategic Tools

China’s Private Security Companies in the Middle East: Commercial Actors, Strategic Tools

Chinese PSCs are state-adjacent actors embedded in China’s overseas economic expansion, particularly under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), generating new arenas of US–China security competition in fragile environments. Existing regulatory frameworks have not significantly constrained this trend. International rules remain fragmented, while domestic regulation has facilitated overseas activity. Demand is driven by BRI exposure […] The post Ch…