The new China-led investment bank AIIB and its geo-strategical meaning

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), irst proposed by China in October 2013, opened for business in January 2016. The AIIB is not only a bank it is also part of the new "assertive" foreign policy line. After the going out strategy starting in 2000 China emerged as a global player building alliances, signing bilateral cooperation treaties and FTAs especially with the Asian neighbor states. With the assumption of oice of the Xi Jinping administration in 2013 this well-prepared popular dream of renewed national greatness was translated into policy