TOKYO — Exactly two years after Bob Pickard quit the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, saying it was “dominated” by Chinese Communist Party members, the Canadian whistleblower insists his claims were not “baseless” as the bank maintains.
Pickard, a public relations veteran who spoke with Nikkei Asia online from the western Canadian city of Calgary, said he sees Beijing “doubling down on party control” over the multilateral lender, which has 110 member states. “They call it multilateral, they call it international, but internally it really feels like a Chinese domestic bank, frankly,” he said.
