China's rich seek bodyguards schooled in digital dark arts

Trainees training at the Genghis Security Academy in Tianjin. China's only bodyguard school, training up protectors for China's rich and famous, are teaching a new skillset to protect the country's newly moneyed tycoons. - AFP

TiIANJIN (China), Sept 20 (AFP): At the "Genghis Security Academy", which bills itself as China's only dedicated bodyguard school, students learn that the threats to the country's newly-rich in the tech age are more likely to emerge from a hacker than a gunman.

Each day students in matching black business suits toil from dawn until midnight at the school in the eastern city of Tianjin, where digital defences are given equal pegging to the traditional close-protection skillset of combat, weapons training and high-speed driving.