Indeed, the last meeting of the International Monetary Fund – which recognized China as the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity – concluded without increasing China’s share of votes. To put this in perspective, China was left with a slightly higher proportion of votes than Italy, whose economy is one-fifth the size, and just one-quarter of America’s vote share.
但西方领导人对于将亚洲最可怕的经济行动方中国纳入国际体系一直犹豫不决。事实上，国际货币基金组织（IMF）尽管认识到中国已成为世界第二大经济体（用购买力平价衡量），但在其最新会议上仍拒绝增加其投票比重。值得注意的是，中国的投票权只比意大利略重，而后者的经济规模只有中国的五分之一。与美国相比，中国的投票权只有其四分之一。