China-led bank starts with 57 members, Norway included
Beijing (AFP) April 15, 2015 - A total of 57 countries have been approved as founding members of a Chinese-backed infrastructure bank, Beijing said Wednesday, and Norway is included despite frosty relations over a Chinese dissident's Nobel prize. No nations that formally sought to become founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) are known to have been refused. But Taiwan, the self-governing islan ... more

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