March 30, 2015
“How much longer can you say that countries shouldn’t join this new institution when they keep doing it anyway?” asked Scott Morris, an expert on international financial institutions at the Center for Global Development.
Morris said the more welcoming message isn’t new; it just wasn’t what the United States initially wanted.
“It certainly was crowded out by the much stronger, more negative comments that came out of the White House,” Morris said. “These have been competing messages coming out of the administration.”