Aussie entry to AIIB may have been to blame for the acceleration of Chinese influences in the nation there. Such commitments come costly. When the western powers, for example, agreed with the US (somewhere near Boston) to use the US currency for international trade and peg the dollar against gold after the WWII, they all signed into a deal that has tied them to the American businesses, politics and even military. Anyhow, the IMF and World Bank do not assist every nation equally partly for political reasons which is why we have so many influences around currently, and then unilateral sanctions against some sovereign states does not help the cause either. Most importantly on the topic, the media plays a large role in the process to bring the folks together which could prove dear for the Australian government and the nation's economy should they decide to backpedal from their new partners.