Engdahl examines a Hong Kong corporate security company, Frontier Services Group, a joint venture with one of China's biggest state enterprises. FSG is responsible for security training along the routes of China's BRI. At the same time the founder of FSG-- the notorious founder of Blackwater Security, Erik Prince-- is working with China on security for the Silk Road project, Prince is in discussion with the Trump White House to create a "private CIA" that would report only to the President and CIA Director. Further, the same Prince is lobbying for privatizing the US war in Afghanistan, using a de facto private air force Prince would provide. He would pay for his air force by looting the $1 trillion worth of rare earth and other minerals in Afghanistan's Helmand province, home to the world's largest opium crops.