China’s “Great Leap Outward”: The AIIB in Context
Larkin, Stuart | June 2015
Abstract
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), along with the creation of other institutions such as the New Development Bank, (NDB), the Contingency Reserve Fund and the Silk Road Fund, are major initiatives for China although they will play a complementary role with existing institutions that manage capital exports. There is a tendency to see the AIIB as having two key roles: as a leading agency for implementation of the “Belt and Road” vision expounded by Xi Jinping and as an instrument of “soft power” delivering “public goods” which address the region’s infrastructure financing requirement. However, AIIB can only really be understood when placed in the context of the economic circumstances that confront China at home and abroad. Partly out of necessity and partly out of opportunity, Beijing is now laying the foundations for the next stage of China’s rise. However, the logic of the “great leap outward”, along with the ability to execute, is undermined if the financial surpluses go into reverse due to deterioration in the domestic economy. Xi Jinping’s strategy is not without its risks.
Citation
Larkin, Stuart. 2015. China’s “Great Leap Outward”: The AIIB in Context. © ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/10992.ISSN
2335-6677
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Urban Development Finance
Trade Finance
Small Business Finance
Rural Finance
Roundtable on International Trade and Finance
Regional Development Finance
Public Service Finance
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Project Finance
Private Finance
Nonbank Financing
Non-Bank Financial Institutions
Municipal Finance
Local Government Finance
Local Currency Financing
Limited Resource Financing
International Financial Institutions
Infrastructure Financing
Industrial Finance
Government Financial Institutions
Government Finance
Financing of Infrastructure
Financial Sector Development
Financial Regulation
Development projects
Physical infrastructure
Soft infrastructure
Infrastructure finance
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Airports
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Water supply
Power production
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Telecommunications
Infrastructure connectivity
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National Budget
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Local Government
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International Monetary Relations
International Financial Market
International Banking
Central Banks
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Budgetary Policy
Capital Needs
Corporate Divestiture
Capital Instruments
Pension Funds
Insurance Companies
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Fiscal Administration
Economics of Education
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