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China's New Development Bank Is Becoming A Massive Embarrassment For Obama
BI ^ | 3-31-2015 | Mikw Bird

Posted on 03/31/2015 6:10:37 AM PDT by blam

Mike Bird
March 31, 2015

China's new development bank, which was announced just five months ago, is becoming a massive headache for the US.

Try as it might, the US government can't convince its allies to stop joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

The bank will be a bit like the World Bank, providing loans to developing countries in Asia for infrastructure projects.

Unlike the World Bank, China will hold the reins of the AIIB. The US administration is publicly worried that the institution won't meet high governance standards, but really seems opposed to the move because it signals a growing Chinese influence in the region, and in global politics.

The US has already endured a series of embarrassments over the bank. It might have been expected that some of the European countries with a cooler relationship with the US would join (which they did). India and Singapore were quick to sign up despite having decent relationships with the US.

But a series of much more embarrassing countries have started to join, leaving the US pretty much totally isolated in its position.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aiib; bank; china; chinandb; communist; obama; worldbank

1 posted on 03/31/2015 6:10:37 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Everything is a massive embarassment for Cretinbama.


2 posted on 03/31/2015 6:15:34 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: blam

QE is not free money, it does have its costs.


3 posted on 03/31/2015 6:15:46 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Japan "Wakes Up," Joins China-led Development Bank (And Then Backs Out)
4 posted on 03/31/2015 6:18:07 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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Obama IS a massive embarrasment


5 posted on 03/31/2015 6:18:33 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: blam

B.O. is too dumb and narcissistic to be embarrassed.


6 posted on 03/31/2015 6:24:24 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: blam

He intends to make the U.S. a secondary player and a diminished nation on the world scene. This is all fine with him.


7 posted on 03/31/2015 6:27:54 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: blam
"The infrastructure bank isn't going to be a massive boom for the UK economy, or even for nearer nations like Japan, and the US will not retaliate. The point is that the UK is willing to take a very modest improvement in economic and political ties with China in exchange for a small deterioration in ties with the US. Pretty much every country has decided that this is the right move.”

Well done Obama! You managed to piss off the whole world including our closest allies. You get a Standing O, Bro!

8 posted on 03/31/2015 6:35:58 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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I didn’t read the whole article, with that being said, how can any company or country not want to look at alternatives to the U.S. Export/Import bank.

Look at how this administration treats our enemies versus how this administration’s treats our long-term friends and allies. Look at how this administration is working to destroy our country from the inside with regulations designed to hinder at best and destroy at worst whole sectors of the U.S. economy.


9 posted on 03/31/2015 6:36:23 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: blam

My fellow conservatives:

Are you against the concept of an Ex-Im Bank while at the same time angry that Obama has allowed the AIIB to take control?

Or do you support an Ex-Im bank that is more competitive than the AIIB?


10 posted on 03/31/2015 6:37:52 AM PDT by kidd
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Ha. He doesn’t care. It hurts colonizing white people.

Ergo, it is good.


11 posted on 03/31/2015 6:40:02 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: The Working Man
"Look at how this administration treats our enemies versus how this administration’s treats our long-term friends and allies."

Glenn Beck was just reading a list of friends and allies who no longer trust or respect us because of OBAMA.

12 posted on 03/31/2015 6:48:33 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: kidd; blam
"Or do you support an Ex-Im bank that is more competitive than the AIIB.

That is apples and oranges.

The World Bank is the offset to AIIB.

The Ex-Im Bank is the offset to the China Development Bank.

There are probably some that recall that after the China Development Bank loaned Petrobras $10 billion in 2009, Obama had the Ex-Im Bank match to the $10 billion offer.

But as it was, Petrobras never utilized any of the Ex-Im loan guarantees.

13 posted on 03/31/2015 7:40:05 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: blam

As the USA continues on her plunge to a second tier country, 0bama and the Progressives smile with glee at the justice of it all.


14 posted on 03/31/2015 7:46:44 AM PDT by Gritty (Death to America? At the rate we're doing it to ourselves, the mullahs will have to move fast-MSteyn)
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How is someone who is litterly Hell bent on knocking this country down, embarrassed by this? He and is inner circle are wearing this like a badge of honor.


15 posted on 03/31/2015 12:21:17 PM PDT by DarkWaters ("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
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