Can the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank limit South China Sea pressure?

Joint infrastructure in the region serving joint development areas would represent a crucial first piece of China’s own proposed One Belt, One Road concept of deepening cross-border interconnections between Asia’s economies. 

Taking this a few steps further State Grid Corp of China, China’s electricity power line state champion, envisages a global electricity grid by 2050. That idea isn’t far-fetched at all. 

Reaching agreement on core elements of such networks in the next 10 years can put the world economy on the kind of multi-decade economic trajectory that can increase wealth, pay the future income streams to fund aging global populations and solve climate change.

What’s needed is to get global institutions and the world’s countries in greater alignment. 

They can start in the South China Sea.