Pulling the Plug on Canada’s Membership in the AIIB is a Really Bad Idea

Bart Édes
4 min readApr 8, 2021
Photo by Jason Hafso on Unsplash

Some in Ottawa are calling for the federal government to unilaterally withhold Canada’s contributions to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a way of punishing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for a variety of actions it has taken domestically and internationally. The proposal is based on a misperception of the bank’s ownership, mission and…

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Bart Édes

Author of Learning from Tomorrow: Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Next Big Disruption