And China’s answer – that the bank would foster the “development of more robust and inter-dependent ties between the BRICS” – provides little substance. Is the bank supposed to serve as a counterweight to global multilateral development banks like the World Bank, or to reduce American and European dominance over the Bretton Woods institutions?
中国已然是非洲最大的贸易伙伴，这一事实让人质疑金砖国家开发银行的潜在作用。中国的回答——该银行能够促进“金砖国家间更稳健、更深入的关系的发展”——并没有提供多少实质内容。新银行将成为类似世界银行的全球多边发展开发银行界的新平衡点，还是为了削弱美国和欧洲在布雷顿森林体系机构中的主导力？