When Robert Zoellick recently announced that he won’t seek a second term as president of the World Bank, representatives of numerous emerging-market countries issued a flood of statements decrying America’s 66-year lock on the position. Meanwhile, the Chinese went out of their way within the organization to express their firm desire to have a commanding say in who succeeds Zoellick. Insiders are predicting that an American will still win the spot and that the Chinese simply want to exercise a showy veto over the proceedings. That would be too bad, because there are a host of good reasons why Washington should presently burden Beijing with the job of running the World Bank.
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Monday, March 19, 2012 at 9:44AM 
Reader Comments (1)
Again great insights. I applaud your continuing approach for America where appropriate to share world responsibilities with China to continue to minimize adversarial results. I'm not sure though that the Chinese/Taiwan relationship has mellowed enough yet to expect them to trust Mr. Lin in their World Bank leadership.