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China builds up private security to protect overseas interests in hostile, unstable regions

When Wolf Warrior 2 swept through China's cinemas in 2017, the harrowing war thriller resonated with audiences like no film ever had. Devoted to flag-waving patriotism, it scratched a nationalistic itch by featuring a one-man Chinese army standing up to foreign mercenaries while saving his compatriots. And aside from smashing box office records, it gave rise to a term known as "wolf-warrior diplomacy", with official rhetoric and practices that are more confrontational and combative than calm and