Dutch to support China-backed Asian infrastructure bank

DutchNews.nl, March 29, 2015

Rutte and Chinese president Xi Jinping. Photo: flikr.com/minister-president

The Netherlands plans to participate in a new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), prime minister Mark Rutte told a trade conference in China at the weekend.

‘The AIIB is good for Asia and that is good for the Netherlands,’ the prime minister said in a statement. ‘The Netherlands earns 30% of its income abroad… in particular we must be well represented in this region. 

More than 1,000 Dutch companies are already doing business in China, he said. ‘Our trade mission to China underlines how valuable it is to invest in a sustainable relationship.’ 

The US has advised against participation in the AIIB  because it is unclear how much influence China will have. China will deliver the biggest share of the capital but has said it will not demand right of veto. 

Britain, France, Germany and Italy have aleady said they would join the AIIB despite US objections. 

According to Reuters, the AIIB is seen as a challenge to existing institutions like the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. The aim of the bank is to finance infrastructure projects such as roads and railways in Asia.

US President Barack Obama, left, poses with Chinese President Xi Jinping as

 he arrives for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting at Yanqi

Lake, north of Beijing on Nov. 11, 2014. (AFP Photo/Greg Baker)

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"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“… Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013. They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader. Remember where you heard it... in a strange, esoteric meeting with a guy in a chair pretending to channel. [Kryon being factious... Kryon humor] Then when you hear it, you'll know better, won't you? "Maybe there was something really there," you'll say. "Maybe it was real," you'll say. Perhaps you can skip all the drama of the years to come and consider that now? [Kryon humor again]

These leaders are going to fall over. You'll have a slow developing leadership coming to you all over the earth where there is a new energy of caring about the public. "That's just too much to ask for in politics, Kryon." Watch for it. That's just the beginning of this last phase. So many things are coming. The next one is related to this, for a country in survival with sickness cannot sustain a leadership of high consciousness. There is just too much opportunity for power and greed. But when a continent is healed, everything changes. .."

".. Many years ago, the prevailing thought was that nobody should consider China as a viable player on the economic stage. They were backward, filled with a system that would never be westernized, and had no wish to become joined with the rest of the world's economic systems. Look what has happened in only 30 years. Now, look at Africa differently …”