Washington's opposition to a new China-led development bank is "embarrassing" and "idiotic", a former top Goldman Sachs executive said on Thursday, as an increasing number of US allies embrace the institution.
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Thursday, 26 March 2015
Vietnam legacy has lessons for anti-Americanism today
The relative decline of the United States and the perceived shift in the global balance of power with the rise of the Middle Kingdom are new factors at play.
China’s influence set to climb as US thwarted on new infrastructure bank
Seven decades after the end of World War II, the international economic architecture crafted by the US faces its biggest shakeup yet, with China establishing new channels for influence to match its ambitions.
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
How Lee Kuan Yew’s political legacies have rubbed off on China
Communist Party inspired by Singapore’s late leader, citing the city-state’s stability, clean government, smooth transitions of power and rule of law
AIIB: Washington loses campaign against Beijing
'What was he thinking?' is the kind of rhetorical question we would direct at, for example, the lazy high-school student who ended up plagiarising the historical narrative posted on the website of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and submitted it as a class paper on race relations in America. It was a silly idea that didn't make a lot of sense, and it wasn't going to work.
US needs to adapt to an engaged China
As Asians imagine a world without Lee Kuan Yew, I can’t help wondering what that diplomatic giant, with strong opinions on many things, would have made of the US’s lead-booted diplomacy over China’s new infrastructure bank?
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