{"id":31477,"date":"2019-02-02T05:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31477"},"modified":"2019-02-02T05:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T05:23:30","slug":"ex-blackwater-chief-linked-to-xinjiang-training-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31477","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Blackwater chief linked to Xinjiang &#8216;training center&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>A company that counts former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince among its investors said it plans to build a &#8220;training center&#8221; in China&#8217;s far western region of Xinjiang, an area where the Chinese government is accused of carrying out a wide-ranging security clampdown targeting Muslim minority groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Frontier Services Group (FSG), a Hong Kong-based company which specializes in providing security, logistics and insurance for businesses operating in hostile environments, made the announcement in a Chinese-language news release posted to its website. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The release, which provided few details about the training center itself, detailed a handful of deals announced between local authorities and CITIC, a massive Chinese conglomerate that is the biggest stakeholder in FSG. The release has since been pulled from FSG&#8217;s homepage, though a cached version remains viewable. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)A company that counts former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince among its investors said it plans to build a &#8220;training center&#8221; in China&#8217;s far western region of Xinjiang, an area where the Chinese government is accused of carrying out a wide-ranging security clampdown targeting Muslim minority groups.Frontier Services Group (FSG), a Hong Kong-based company&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}