Similarly, Congress failed to fulfill an American commitment to support the reallocation of voting power within the International Monetary Fund to emerging-market countries, though doing so would cost very little. This paved the way for China to launch its Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (which the US then mistakenly tried to block, at considerable cost to its reputation.)
类似地，国会让美国无法兑现支持国际货币基金组织有利于新兴市场国家的投票权重新配置，尽管这样做代价很小。这给中国铺平了道路，促使它发起了亚洲基础设施投资银行（而美国随后又错误地进行了阻挠，给自己的名誉造成了极大影响）。国会还极力阻止为即将召开的12月巴黎联合国气候变化会议制定碳排放上限。