In his latest book [4] Henry Kissinger anticipated China’s initiative to create the first
new international organization of the 21st century. He didn’t foresee the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as such, but argued
that as China continued to increase its global economic weight, it would inevitably seek its security, in part, by building international
organizations in which it sat at the center. And that this would rightly or wrongly be seen as a challenge to the postWorld
War II UScentric
international architecture.