Iraq in the Belt Strategy and China's Iraq

Abstract

The Belt and Road Initiative has geostrategic effects on Iraq in particular and the Middle East and the world in general, which requires Iraq to accelerate the implementation of infrastructure development projects that help to enter Iraq effectively in the initiative and is the dry canal linking the ports of the northern Gulf of Europe with Europe through Iraq and Turkey The southern region of Iraq, which remains an important transit area on the road and air transport, can provide Iraq with financial revenues of up to 60 billion dollars a year, a fixed resources comparable to the financial revenues of oil if Iraq is well exploited.