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US approves plan to build Kuwait’s new defense ministry HQ

The $1 billion project is part of Washington's attempt to outmaneuver China's growing influence in the Gulf.
Kuwait military

Kuwait’s new defense ministry headquarters will be designed and built by the US Army Corps of Engineers and other US-based contractors, if a $1 billion proposal approved by the Biden administration yesterday comes to fruition.

The State Department approved the proposal and notified Congress yesterday. Lawmakers have 30 days to raise an objection, but are unlikely to do so. Other contractors for the project, which is expected to take seven years, have not yet been identified.

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