Canada must permanently leave China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank


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Open this photo in gallery: China's President Xi Jinping, left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend a session during the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019.KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images Jonathan Berkshire Miller is director of foreign affairs, national security and defence at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. As much as Canada’s announcement this month that it will halt activity with China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) might have appeared out of the blue, the end result of this failed experiment was predictable. The Liberal government had joined the multinational development bank in 2017 with a naive, economically myopic view of...