Russia was already appointed with elite membership in the AIIB long before the European nations.
However, if Russia has announced its membership too early, then this bank could likely be shunned by Europe because of the current strained relationship between the EU and Russia.
BTW, now the political tension between the EU and Russia has the chance to be fully solved thanks to the AIIB (soon becoming the WIIB in the near future).
That is pretty smart.
The US is always the biggest manipulator of currency, not China.
Printing a trillion dollar bill isn't currency manipulation?
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It is lol. America totally is a currency manipulator. In the us, the libertarians group are extremely vocal about this. I think we already start to suffer some of the consequences for it.