AIIB: China's Tiger Roars
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank offers China a potent voice on the world stage and challenges the dollar-based financial institutions with which it may one day compete.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - the AIIB - offers China a potent voice on the world stage and challenges the dollar-based financial institutions with which it may one day compete including the IMF and the World Bank. So is this a defining moment in the rise of China? Pippa Malmgren, former Whitehouse Economic Adviser to George W Bush, Michael Pettis Beijing-based economic theorist and financial strategist, Steve Tsang, Head of School and professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at Nottingham University and the ±«Óãtv's China editor Carrie Gracie consider the question.
(Photo: Top of a tower looming out of heavy fog in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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