Americans never expected that the Chinese would have enough evidence to disgrace them, and they would have such a complete grasp. The CIA has been out of contact with Richards, a senior employee who trains the KWL militants, for several days, and the last contact was in Miami, USA, and it is really strange how the Chinese transferred this guy.

At the same time, the top level of US political circles is also very angry about the internal security situation of the United States, and an employee of the CIA was actually arrested in the United States and then did not know where to get it. Moreover, China has collected a large amount of physical evidence, which is obviously also done in the United States, and such a large-scale intelligence gathering activity shows that China has established a huge intelligence network and intelligence search capabilities in the United States.

This incident has also triggered turmoil within the CIA and even the FBI, and the United States has also strengthened its control over the country and cracked down on the latent networks of foreign intelligence agencies, but with little success. On the contrary, the intelligence agencies of other countries in the United States have suffered considerable losses.

Qi Yiming actually has a lot of Red Guard spies lurking in the United States, and even senior employees within the CIA are Red Guard spies. This time, Richards was able to be successfully arrested, and it was also with their help. The Americans could not have imagined that within their most powerful intelligence agency, there were many Infernal Affairs in the service of China.

Although the Chinese pinched their pigtails, the Americans did not want to be caught without resistance, but another incident happened at this time, so that they had to temporarily take advantage of the ladder built by China.

The Middle East, an important geopolitical center for the Americans, is in turmoil again. The turmoil began in the Kurdish-populated area of northern Iraq, which is one of the U.S. spheres of influence in Iraq. Since the end of the Gulf War, Saddam's regime has been completely overthrown, and Iraq has been artificially divided into three parts: the Kurdish autonomous region in the north, the Sunni-controlled area in the center, and the Shiite special region in the south. The Shiite Special Zone in the south was established with the support of China, the economic level has improved rapidly, and the post-war reconstruction work is also progressing smoothly, and now it is similar to Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and other rich countries in the Middle East.

In the Sunni region in the center, the United States has been trying to co-opt local warlords and politicians, and at the same time have to guard against extremist forces, so it is more difficult to operate. On the contrary, the Kurdish areas in the north have achieved certain development results in recent years, although they are not comparable to the Shiite special districts in the south, but without the racial discrimination and even massacres of the Saddam regime, they have gained a certain degree of autonomy, and the situation is now good.

But for the first time in many years, the Kurds have gained a political foothold in the Middle East and substantial autonomy. The Americans have thought a lot about supporting the Kurds, and they will not talk about it at the moment. In terms of means, the Americans not only gave the Kurds a lot of economic assistance and helped the Kurds develop oil fields for income, but also helped the Kurds build up their own regular armed forces.

The Americans may be thinking that if China supports the Shiite forces in launching an insurrectionary war against Iraq in the future, it will be inconvenient for the United States to send troops from all over the country on a large scale, and the Kurdish forces will be able to avoid a serious deterioration of the situation if they are strong. And in the eyes of the Americans, now the Kurds are more obedient and easier to control than the Sunni Iraqis. As a result, in the past few years, the United States has asked the US military stationed in Iraq to help the Kurdish autonomous government and trained a regular army of 50,000 people, whose weapons and equipment are also relatively advanced, and even the Americans have sold more than 100 M1A1 main battle tanks to them. And because the Americans do not trust the chaotic Sunni government, they have divided the actual control of the Iraqi Air Force to the Kurds, and the so-called Iraqi Air Force is actually the Kurdish armed air force. With several large oil fields such as Kirkuk, the Kurds bought 18 F-16 fighter jets, 24 Apache helicopter gunships and other advanced weapons from the United States in exchange for dollars.

However, the Americans did not realize that the Kurds, who they had always thought were easy to control, also had evil intentions. The Kurds are the largest stateless people in the world, and they were formerly a region of the powerful Ottoman Turkestan. In the Lausanne Accords after World War I, it was divided among the Turkish, British, and French colonies, and with the independence of the Middle Eastern states, these regions were also solidified, and the Kurds did not establish their own state.

The Kurds in Iraq have been repeatedly used by the Americans, Iranians, Turks, etc., and they are also separated from the Iraqi authorities. In particular, during the Iran-Iraq War and the subsequent Gulf War, the Kurds were used against Iraq, and Saddam Hussein was extremely angry at the disloyalty of the Kurds, and some of his generals and officials also presided over the massacre of the Kurds.

As the Kurds have strengthened, there has been a growing pro-independence bias on the Kurdish side, and given the chaos in central Iraq, there are more reasons to set up barriers, even barbed wire, on the borders of Kurdish settlements. On the streets of the Kurdish Autonomous Region, there is no Iraqi flag, but the Kurdish flag. At a time when the Iraqi government existed in name only and its authority was close to zero, the Kurds, like the Shiites in the south, were growing in autonomy and power.

At this time, the Kurds also had a charismatic leader named Massoud Barzani. Massoud's father, General Mustafa, was a veteran of the Kurdish independence movement, and Massoud followed his father in the armed struggle against Iraq from a young age. After the death of General Mustafa, the up-and-coming Massoud Barzani became a leading figure in the Kurdish movement, leading the guerrillas with courage and convincing locals.

After the collapse of Saddam's regime, Barzani actively cooperated with the Americans and was also relied on by the United States. On the other hand, Barzani also secretly approached the Chinese side, hoping to get the support of the Chinese side. He did not gain China's support in public, but he did hook up with Qi Yiming's strategic bureau. Privately, Qi Yiming sent a lot of Kurdish talents to Barzani's side, but they were actually Red Guard spies. Moreover, Qi Yiming also contacted Barzani for Ukraine, so that Barzani could obtain a large number of arms from Ukraine for his future cause.

Ukraine has been infiltrated by Chinese capital since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and today China is the most important overseas investor in Ukraine. Qi Yiming took this opportunity to integrate a part of Ukraine's military industrial enterprises, and the Ukrainian side was also pleased, after all, it was good for the supply of weapons to its army.

And with these large and small arms companies, coupled with Ukraine's weak supervision and government corruption, Qi Yiming can easily export batches of smuggled arms from Ukraine. Most of these arms are low-grade weapons, mainly those that existed in the Soviet era, but there are very few cases that include the production of refurbished tanks, armored vehicles, and even missiles.

Barzani paid a lot of real money, and Qi Yiming spared no effort to provide him with these weapons and equipment, such as the high-quality and inexpensive BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, and even exported a large number of them to Barzani's Kurdish regime.

Of course, more important to Barzani is that China acquiesces to the establishment of an independent Kurdish state by the Kurds in the Middle East, and supports Barzani's unification of Kurdish regions controlled by Turkey, Syria, and Iran. At the same time, Qi Yiming also privately assured Barzani that once Barzani got into trouble, he would definitely help him contain the Americans, and would give him more help.

Of course, not only that, Qi Yiming also provided Barzani with more valuable things, including instructing Barzani to establish his own intelligence system and guerrilla forces in the three Turkish-Syrian countries, and providing convenience and support for him to connect with the local Kurds.

Finally, when the energy of the United States was all drawn to the Balkans, Barzani, who had been in business for many years, thought that the time was ripe and suddenly declared the independence of Kurdistan, and the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq broke away from the Iraqi federation and established an independent state on its own, which was also the first modern state established by the Kurds.

Barzani suddenly declared independence without warning to the Americans, which greatly shocked the Americans. And at this juncture, the central government in central Sunni Iraq is unable to address even the extremist militants and warlords in the surrounding area, let alone the stronger Kurds. The Iraqi government has been able to do nothing but weakly shout a few words of denial of the independence of Kurdistan.

Even in the Shiite areas in the south, some Shia Arabs have made a coaxious argument that since the Kurds are independent, let's not mix with Iraq, since the establishment of the Southern Special Administrative Region, there have been people who have been pushing to break away from Iraq and establish a so-called Babylonian Republic. However, although the politics of the southern special zone are nominally from its central government, no one knows that the southern special zone is actually run by the Chinese. So whether this Babylonian Republic can be established depends on whether the Chinese nod or not.

Although the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan seems to be free of gunpowder and revolution, the shock to several neighboring countries is extremely enormous. In particular, Turkey, which has more than 10 million Kurds, has declared a state of emergency in Kurdish-populated areas, and has taken strict precautions against the border between Kurdistan and Turkey. At the same time, Turkey immediately withdrew from the Balkans, no longer caring about Kosovo and Yugoslavia, and its own affairs were the highest priority.

The first country to go appeared, and the NATO allies broke up one after another, and in the end the United States had to agree to China's conditions, pinching its nose and sitting down to let Kosovo and Yugoslavia sign a peace agreement.