Moreover, since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the region’s emerging economies have increased their holdings of foreign-exchange reserves, and now possess more than half of the world’s total. Seven of the world’s top ten reserve-holding economies are in Asia.
此外，自1997年亚洲金融危机以来，亚洲新兴经济体已经增加了其持有的外汇储备，如今储备量已经占到世界总量一半以上。世界十大外汇储备国中的七个在亚洲。但囤积的国际储备主要是低收益的短期美国国债形式，不但昂贵，而且低效。