Erik Prince courts new controversy


Disclaimer: An FSG spokesman says Prince has no plans, desire nor interest to engage in any activity in Xinjiang Province.

HONG KONG: Erik Prince, the former Navy Seal who founded Blackwater, hardly seems like the type who dwells on corporate niceties. He was, after all, America’s foremost mercenary executive.

But there he was in Beijing, bearing an unlikely gift for a man who might open China to a freelancer known for his band of private contractors. It was a copy of his Blackwater memoir, “Civilian Warriors’’.

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