{"id":158508,"date":"2026-10-08T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158508"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:00:09","slug":"us-wraps-up-military-mission-in-iraq-giving-baghdad-room-to-strengthen-china-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158508","title":{"rendered":"US wraps up military mission in Iraq, giving Baghdad room to strengthen China ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US has ended its military mission in Iraq, a move analysts said could give Baghdad more room for diversified partnerships and indirectly benefit China\u2019s energy and commercial interests.<br \/>\nBut they cautioned that the shift was unlikely to create a power vacuum for Beijing to fill, with China lacking both the ambition and capacity to take on the US security role.<br \/>\nThe United States formally ended its Operation Inherent Resolve mission in Iraq on September 30, completing a withdrawal agreed on in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3370072\/us-wraps-military-mission-iraq-giving-baghdad-room-strengthen-china-ties?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US has ended its military mission in Iraq, a move analysts said could give Baghdad more room for diversified partnerships and indirectly benefit&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}