# VOA Focus: Final U.S. troops to leave Iraq as Rubio congratulates Chinese people

https://mins.news/en/video/80990

- VOA Chinese, 2026-09-30 20:45 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssa9fNbnQrI

> The program highlights President Trump’s announcement that the last U.S. troops will leave Iraq and that Washington and Baghdad will establish a new “bilateral defense relationship.” It also reports that F-35 parts allegedly fell into Chinese hands, Rubio’s National Day congratulations to China, World War II references at a U.S.-China summit, a U.N. dispute between China and Japan over the “enemy state clauses,” Boeing’s sixth-generation fighter contract with the U.S. Navy, and an attack on a Dubai-Israel flight described by an Israeli official as a foiled “terrorist attack.”

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