BERLIN: Chinese deputy finance minister Shi Yaobin has told the German press his country would welcome a US role in a Beijing-backed multinational lender, hours after state media described Washington as “petulant and cynical.”

“We would welcome the United States into the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank [AIIB],” Shi told Handelsblatt daily in an interview set for publication on Thursday.

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