One strategy, termed “benign neglect,” was to let the surplus countries pile up reserves until they realized that they had a very big problem. But there seemed to be no end to the piling up of reserves, so the only remaining choice was confrontation.
日本经济据说是封闭着的，美国要迫使它开放，可以采取两种策略。一种策略叫“善意忽视”，就是放任盈余国家积累储备，直到它们自己意识到问题的严重性。可是储备积累起来似乎没有个顶，所以仅存的选择就是对抗。