# Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank opens for business

Date: 2016

## The fact

On 16 January 2016 the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank opened in Beijing after its Articles of Agreement entered into force. Xi had championed the bank.

## Context

Jin Liqun became president. Fifty-seven founding members participated. The United States had declined to join. Xi is the political principal of the founding. He does not sit as the bank’s credit committee.

Later capital increases and individual project loans are neighbouring later instruments.

The General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, concurrently President of the People’s Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, can set the Politburo agenda, nominate the State Council leadership, and command the armed forces. He does not write UN General Assembly resolutions, OHCHR assessments, WHO emergency-use listings, or Hong Kong ordinances by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 16 January 2016 AIIB opening in Beijing after the Articles entered into force.

Not established: that every later Belt and Road loan was an AIIB loan, or a unique later poverty coefficient from opening day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Jin Liqun runs operations. Member states share capital.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank opens for business, not a later speech about Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank opens for business.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank opens for business on 2016-01-16 is not a licence to treat every later Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank opens for business into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He championed the bank as China’s principal. Jin Liqun runs operations. Member states share capital. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The National People’s Congress, the State Council, provincial governments, the People’s Liberation Army, Hong Kong’s executive, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. An OHCHR assessment is not a criminal conviction. A white paper is not a census. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Xi Jinping: https://factrail.ai/people/xi-jinping

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-aiib-idUSKCN0UU0B3
- https://www.aiib.org/en/news-events/news/2016/AIIB-opens-for-business.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cn-aiib-opens-2016