Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair were all young Social Democrats in the classical European definition of politicians - they emanated from the left while espousing the basic tenants of liberal economic policy - who won popular majorities.
Clinton is said to have been impressed, in the time that Gillard was Australian Prime Minister, with her toughness on policy issues.
It's a good moment to ask whether the AIIB is holding true to the most central and repeated claim that the bank will be 'lean, clean and green'.
