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Soft balancing against the US ‘pivot to Asia’: China’s geostrategic rationale for establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Lai-Ha ChanSchool of Communication, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 568-590 | Published online: 07 Aug 2017

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