Shifting centre of gravity to Asia


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 11 Apr 2015

BRITAIN’S recent decision to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founder member has led to a kind of stampede by other allies of the United States in Europe such as Germany, France and Italy to follow suit.

So did two other important Asia-Pacific allies, Australia and South Korea. The only other major US ally in Asia which did not was Japan.

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Opinion , Lee Poh Ping , AIIB , world bank , IMF

   

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