As usual, national self-interest dominated, but at least the whole process wasn't derailed.

I think their real interest is using the partner bank in China to distribute financial products and services that would be very difficult for them to do on their own. If you view the stake as the cost of obtaining access to the client base, it could be worthwhile in the long term as long as those joint ventures turn out to be profitable.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself