Isn’t Japan a well known case of chronic recession lasting for decades since the 90s? There are more general issues that other East Asian countries share like population decline.

And paywalls. Why.

For the whole continent? I thought they would try that starting with their own (proposed) regional block, the Eastern African Federation.

Iraqis need, like any other people, basic infrastructure like to make their society work. Propaganda or not, a school is a school. Children and adults getting educated and having chances of getting better jobs, instead of falling into traps like the so called Islamic State that brought only death, rape and suffering.

Now if the Iraqis themselves want to argue if they prefer watching their schoolchildren singing in English or Mandarin, that should ultimately be the Iraqis decision, not ours.