Western Firms Eye Multiple Deals In Major Offensive To Take The Iraq Initiative Back From China And Russia There are two distinct superpower strategies at play to capture the very heartland of the Middle East – Iraq. On the one hand, China and Russia want to end the semi-independent status of Kurdistan in the north, have it rolled into the rest of Iraq as a regular province, and then expel all Western firms from the then-unified country. The objective for Beijing and Moscow in so doing was delineated by a very senior member of the Russian…