Nov 17, 2008
More influence for China?
SHANGHAI - CHINA and other developing countries should be given more influence in the global financial system if they provide money to help resolve the world's economic crisis, a senior official of the country's $200 billion (S$304 billion) sovereign wealth fund said on Monday.
'Developed countries should come to talk to developing countries with humility,' Mr Jin Liqun, supervisory board chairman of China Investment Corp, told reporters on the sidelines of a financial conference in Shanghai.
'The question is whether developed countries are ready to accept China as a major player. If you want China to take out money when the crisis happens, but give China little power when voting, nobody is going to play with you.'
He said the international financial system was based on a mechanism established 60 years ago, and did not fit current circumstances, so it needed to be adjusted. -- REUTERS
More influence for China?
SHANGHAI - CHINA and other developing countries should be given more influence in the global financial system if they provide money to help resolve the world's economic crisis, a senior official of the country's $200 billion (S$304 billion) sovereign wealth fund said on Monday.
'Developed countries should come to talk to developing countries with humility,' Mr Jin Liqun, supervisory board chairman of China Investment Corp, told reporters on the sidelines of a financial conference in Shanghai.
'The question is whether developed countries are ready to accept China as a major player. If you want China to take out money when the crisis happens, but give China little power when voting, nobody is going to play with you.'
He said the international financial system was based on a mechanism established 60 years ago, and did not fit current circumstances, so it needed to be adjusted. -- REUTERS