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28-12-2021, 08:35 AM
Laura Zhou
Published: 7:00pm, 19 Dec, 2021
China has signed a deal to build 1,000 schools in Iraq
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Power China will construct 679 schools and the other 321 will be built by Sino Tech.
This was part of a national project to build a total of 7,000 new schoolhouses as the government tries to reconstruct the education system after years of war.
According to Unicef, nearly 3.2 million school-aged Iraqi children have no access to school.
Thursday’s deals were signed two weeks after the US military announced that it had formally ended its combat mission 18 years after the US invaded to remove Saddam Hussein. However, some 2,500 US ground forces will stay in an advisory role.
US armed forces initially withdrew from the country in 2011, but former president Barack Obama then sent them back in 2014 after Islamic State militants seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
The troops remained there even after the militant group was driven from its last Iraqi stronghold in 2017.
The announcement that they would be withdrawn this year reflected the US shift to the Asia-Pacific as US President Joe Biden’s administration prioritises on the challenge from China.
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China is the largest buyer of oil produced in Iraq.
Chinese companies are also in talks to build more infrastructure in the country, from power supplies, communications to schools, water supplies, airports and railways.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomac...ing-pushes
Published: 7:00pm, 19 Dec, 2021
China has signed a deal to build 1,000 schools in Iraq
......
Power China will construct 679 schools and the other 321 will be built by Sino Tech.
This was part of a national project to build a total of 7,000 new schoolhouses as the government tries to reconstruct the education system after years of war.
According to Unicef, nearly 3.2 million school-aged Iraqi children have no access to school.
Thursday’s deals were signed two weeks after the US military announced that it had formally ended its combat mission 18 years after the US invaded to remove Saddam Hussein. However, some 2,500 US ground forces will stay in an advisory role.
US armed forces initially withdrew from the country in 2011, but former president Barack Obama then sent them back in 2014 after Islamic State militants seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
The troops remained there even after the militant group was driven from its last Iraqi stronghold in 2017.
The announcement that they would be withdrawn this year reflected the US shift to the Asia-Pacific as US President Joe Biden’s administration prioritises on the challenge from China.
......
China is the largest buyer of oil produced in Iraq.
Chinese companies are also in talks to build more infrastructure in the country, from power supplies, communications to schools, water supplies, airports and railways.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomac...ing-pushes
