The so-called Middle East National Security Conference is actually an aftermath meeting in an alternative sense, and it is also a kind of influence spoils meeting, and the country presiding over the meeting will gain undisputed power in the Middle East and the Gulf region, and the Middle East is an important strategic point connecting Europe, Asia and Africa, producing a huge proportion of oil and gas in the world, so for any country that aspires to global leadership, it is a region that cannot be ignored and abandoned.

Both the United States and China have begun to station troops in the Middle East, but it is clear that the garrison will help restore order and calm in Iraq, Saddam Hussein and Majid are gone, and now Iraq is in ruins, most of the country's civilian facilities such as power generation and water supply are less than a fraction of what they were before the war, millions of people have been affected by the war, and more than 100,000 people have died in this war and the subsequent plague.

There is no legitimate government in Iraq, if not at all, the army and the people lack food and a host of other necessities for life, and looting, rape and murder are repeated. Naturally, the United States wants to change this situation, but the US military basically does not have the possibility of stationing troops on a large scale in Iraq. The tumbling public opinion at home, the political pressure from the Democratic Party, and the huge losses suffered in the war made it impossible for the Americans to send hundreds of thousands of troops to Iraq to help them establish a transitional government and gradually achieve peace and stability in the region without the support of the United States.

In fact, even if the Americans wanted to garrison troops and then install a puppet regime, they would not succeed. On the other hand, the United States did this after the Iraq War, but Iraq is still a hotspot for terrorist attacks, and even eleven years later, ISIS has directly defeated the official government, and it is even possible to establish a state similar to Saddam Hussein or the Taliban regime again.

Just because the United States does not have this capability does not mean that China does not have it either. Iraq's large oil resources have always been coveted by Qi Yiming, in fact, in another plane, after the United States fought the Iraq war, it is also China's several major industry giants who really obtained most of the oil and gas resource exploitation rights, such as the Americans as thugs, and it is the Chinese who take advantage. The big American oil companies were more interested in developing the country's oil than willing to endure the potential dangers of Iraq, and after the shale gas was liberalized, they didn't care about that.

The main way for China to mediate the situation in Iraq is through the path of the UN Security Council, otherwise it will not be able to justify the whole situation in Iraq without any headlessness. Although this righteousness is sometimes as light and thin as a piece of paper, having this thing and not having this thing are really two different things.

The Chinese Government has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council, requesting that it enter Iraq in the capacity of peacekeeping and promoting post-war reconstruction there, and calls on the international community to pay attention to and support it, so that Iraq can establish an effective and functioning democratic government as soon as possible, and make efforts to restore Iraq's economy and society. There are several clever things about this proposal, although it is called peacekeeping, it is actually not wearing blue helmets, which means that the Chinese troops are not restricted by the rule that the blue helmets cannot take the initiative to attack, and can take the initiative to attack when necessary, thus enhancing the offensive and mission of the troops. Moreover, China did not raise the issue of monopoly in Iraq, but called for international cooperation, which also left a convenient door for other countries to enter Iraq and ruled out the suspicion of eating alone.

And Qi Yiming can transfer the sub-base in Afghanistan to Iraq at this time, increase the ability to control this area, and something like the Psychic Beacon Tower is bound to be built, whether to control the puppet This kind of thing can be discussed, because as long as China always maintains a military presence in Iraq, then it will always maintain influence on this country.

Iraq's infrastructure is almost completely destroyed, road transportation, electricity, water power, industry and agriculture, etc., these things need a lot of support to be restored, and it is obvious that Chinese enterprises have accumulated a certain amount of experience after five years of rapid domestic development, and investing in Iraq as a country can also help Iraq restore its economy and stability quickly and well. This process is, of course, a process of investment, which, in addition to mastering the various sectors of Iraq's economy, is also of great benefit to increasing the revenues of enterprises and benefiting the country's economy.

However, at this time, the Americans could not continue to sit idly by and watch China stand on their bruised and swollen faces, and began to search everywhere for the fruits of victory in the war, although China was indeed the victorious side of the war.

In order to avoid the "unnecessary expansion" of China's regional influence, the US military sent the 101st Air Assault Division directly into unmanned Baghdad without notifying the troops of other countries still stationed in the Middle East. Originally, the multinational force was still debating whether to continue to intervene in the situation in Iraq, and many countries wanted to withdraw from it, but sending troops directly when the decision was still undecided really undermined the trust between the allies.

However, since it has been done, it is difficult for other countries to say anything to the United States. Of course, there are also those who are unwilling, and that is the Chinese side. After the US military captured Baghdad, the Chinese troops, who had not yet begun to withdraw, began to make frequent movements in southern Iraq in the name of exercises, and within a day, the Chinese troops successively took control of Basra, Nasiriyah, and Amarah, which had not yet been fully normalized. This area is an important oil producing area in Iraq, and it is also a relatively fertile lower basin of the two river basins, with relatively large agricultural potential and relatively developed economy, but after suffering from the double devastation of war and virus, it is more dilapidated than the northern and central regions.

Although such an obvious action against the bull did not particularly arouse widespread concern in the world's circles, it also made the United States know that it should not be too arbitrary in doing things, and US President George H.W. Bush specially dispatched his own special envoy, Kissinger, who has a good relationship with China, to secretly go to China to have a "long talk" on how to divide up Iraq.

Kissinger's visit to China was warmly received, and it also made Kissinger, who visited China nearly 20 years ago, feel that time has passed and the world has changed. When he visited China in 1972 to make efforts to normalize diplomatic relations between China and the United States, although China was mysterious and peculiar, it was still poor and backward, but when Kissinger set foot on Chinese soil again and came out of the capital airport, he saw a modern international city no less than some large cities in the United States.

More than half of the take-offs and landings in the airport are China's own civilian airliners, the vast majority of the roads are China's own family cars, and newspapers write about how the Chinese military uses its own advanced weapons to achieve its might in the Middle East.

"It's no wonder that some people worry that China will weaken the influence of the United States, and even compete and conflict with the United States, the speed of development of this country is too fast!" Kissinger remembers the material he had read, and some people predicted that in 1992 China might surpass Britain and France to become the fourth largest economy in the world, and that if it continues to develop at such a terrifying pace for ten years, it will be infinitely close to the United States, which now has a huge economy. The material base determines what a country can accomplish, and it is clear that the improvement of the economy has enabled China to do something that only a strong country can do.

Because Kissinger is a private person and has no official title, although he is in the capacity of Bush Sr.'s special envoy, it is impossible for him to directly negotiate with the No. 1 chief and others, and the meeting with the bigwigs is a process, and Kissinger also knows that real negotiations and communication are carried out behind closed doors.

It was Qi Yiming who met with Kissinger, his identity was relatively flexible, and he was not completely absent from formal occasions, and he also had a part in Iraq's strategic layout, and he was also strong enough in terms of negotiation ability, so it was not a problem to deal with Kissinger.

Kissinger is not surprised by Qi Yiming's youth, Qi Yiming, who has entered his thirties, already has the taste of a mature man, and it will not give people much impact. As a strategic expert on the China issue, Kissinger even led the reform of China's socialist theory and promoted the socialist theory to rejuvenate its strength at this time.

After some lengthy politeness, the two sides got to the point, and Qi Yiming said very bluntly: "The unauthorized actions of the US side have undermined the trust and structure that the multinational force has built, and the Chinese side expresses great regret for this." Therefore, I hope that no matter which side it is, it will stop unilateral actions without communication, because the original intention of everyone is to restore peace and prosperity to Iraq, and any unilateral actions may undermine this process. ”

Kissinger didn't expect Qi Yiming to mention it high, and then fell lightly, relieved, he actually came to China, mainly to explore the wind, judging from Qi Yiming's statement, China has no intention of confronting the authority of the United States, nor does it intend to have a conflict, but China does not want the United States to be too domineering, and there are interests that must be divided.

"As you said, China and the United States are friendly allies with common goals, and there is a need for greater communication and coordination on many issues. I propose that, until the establishment of the Interim Transitional Government of Iraq, the armies of all countries should refrain from arbitrarily 'shifting their defenses' and maintain their existing 'garrisons'. ”

This means that everyone should stop indiscriminately occupying territory, Qi Yiming doesn't have much opinion on this, he is not in a hurry to kick the United States out of the country all at once, and then monopolize Iraq, and now the area they control has a huge amount of oil production, and the population has exploded, which makes it less difficult to control. In Qi Yiming's view, the big deal is that everyone will really divide up Iraq and establish a federal state in name, but in fact, each region has its own interests and masters.