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"I had several close brushes with death," this is how Yang Honglin, the first Chinese Ambassador to Iraq after the 2003 Iraq War, recalled his most memorable story there. What was the real purpose of the U.S. in promoting the Greater Middle East Initiative? Here is Ambassador Yang's answer.

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