Chinese soft power in Iraq: Speak the language, get jobs

IRBIL, Iraq -- In a classroom in northern Iraq, Zhiwei Hu presides over his students as a conductor would an orchestra. He cues with a question, and the response from his students resounds in perfect, fluent Chinese.

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