The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is not a product of narrow-minded geopolitical considerations. Nor should it be. Rather than a diplomatic success of China's, it is the success of every signatory.

China sees itself as a participant in, beneficiary of, and contributor to current international development mechanisms. Likewise by participating in and contributing to the AIIB, each party will benefit.

To live up to the high expectations it has inspired, the AIIB must prove its worth as a truly international, multilateral institution dedicated fully, faithfully to the region's development needs.