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Chinese officials out in force at IMF and World Bank meetings this week
Foreign direct investment and exports are down but construction revenue is up
Xi Jinping’s signature initiative faces headwinds as politics and profit collide
Benefits of rivalry include an increase in Japanese lending
Jin Liqun says the institution can already lend up $250bn
Global co-operation matters more than short-term gain
Two of multilateral lender’s biggest members missed deadline to ratify entry
Superpowers’ goals diverge, with PBoC aiding trade while Trump retreats into isolation
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Growing interest in AIIB strengthens Beijing’s bid to play bigger world role
Brexit and Trump’s victory do not put China, Russia and India in the driving seat
Canberra seeks to defend its lucrative exports to the region
Countries have to flesh out decarbonisation promises made in Paris
Kyttack Hong exits 9 months after development bank opened its doors
Bank is having to adjust its contentious restructuring programme
Surge in applicants would allow development bank to rapidly expand in Africa and Latin America
China’s first multilateral development bank to approve maiden loans
Europeans could think harder about how to assist US efforts in the region, writes Hisao Tonedachi
Not all projects are driven by commercial logic
The region is both welcoming and wary of Beijing’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative
The crucial point is that he is America’s first Pacific president
The power behind the Chinese bank that’s upsetting America meets Jamil Anderlini at a fast-food joint in Beijing and insists, ‘We’re not trying to upend the international economic and financial order’
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