October 7, 2012

China Hands U.S. Big Asia Win

Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest

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China isn’t very good at foreign policy; that is the only way to make sense of the apparent decision by a number of large Chinese banks to boycott the annual meeting of the World Bank and the IMF scheduled for Tokyo next week.

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