美国对亚投行的反对并不是没有先例的；事实上，美国在1990年代末就成功压制了日本计划向东亚金融危机国家慷慨提供800亿美元援助的新宫泽动议。
America’s opposition to the AIIB is not unprecedented; in fact, it is akin to the successful US opposition to Japan’s generous New Miyazawa Initiative of the late 1990s, which offered $80 billion to help countries in the East Asian crisis.