China Rejects Geopolitics, Calls on ‘Isolated’ U.S. To Join AIIB
The official Chinese newspaper Global Times, in an editorial yesterday, strongly reasserted China’s effort to get the U.S. to join, not counter, the Silk Road and AIIB initiatives. The editorial said:
The editorial notes that the AIIB
Also yesterday, Xinhua published an article titled: “So, Washington, What Are You Waiting For?” It begins: “Welcome Germany! Welcome France! Welcome Italy! Despite a petulant and cynical Washington, the three leading European powers decided to join the AIIB headquartered in Beijing on Tuesday.”
They write that this sends a “clear signal to the whole world, and particularly to the United States, who is trying to forge an anti-AIIB front within its allies,”
noting that the euro countries which are joining demonstrate an “international community bound together by interdependence, win-win cooperation, rather than self-concerned fulfillment,”
while the U.S. stance of “holding sour grapes over the AIIB makes America look isolated and hypocritical.”
The article concludes: “Unlike the U.S.-led TPP negotiation which excludes China, the AIIB is open to all interested parties, including the United States. So Washington, what are you waiting for?”
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