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Spotlight: AIIB should become platform for cooperation between U.S., China -- bank chief

2017-04-26 09:00:33       source:Xinhua News Agency

April 25, 2017


"As a new multilateral international institution focusing exclusively on infrastructure, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) should become a platform for cooperation between China and the United States, Jin Liqun, president of the AIIB, said on Monday.


NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK ON INFRASTRUCTURE


In a speech at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, Jin said there was a lot of skepticism in the United States and Europe when China initiated the idea of the AIIB about three years ago.


Since then he has reached out to the White House, the State Department, and U.S. think tanks for a number of times to explain this idea, and now they have finally realized that the AIIB is a new multilateral development bank, which focuses exclusively on infrastructure, according to Jin."


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