The news about China the last few days is about how it is scoring a diplomatic coup d'état against the U.S. vis-a-vis Europe. On March 12, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced that the U.K. had applied to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founding member. If accepted, Britain would have been the first major Western country to become a … [Read more...] about The Tussle over AIIB – So Much ado about Influence?