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Sep 03, 2018
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The upcoming spread of China’s private armies in territories of Xi Jinping’s expanding Belt and Road Initiative appears about to become as profitable as buying host countries on the cheap through massive loans for infrastructure that tie them to Beijing’s political interests.

According to a recent report by the Berlin-based Mercator Institute for China S…

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