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.

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