Moreover, it is clear that northern European countries could help to close the competitiveness gap more rapidly by encouraging faster wage growth. Indeed, Western policy-makers’ strong focus on persuading the Chinese authorities to permit greater appreciation of their currency is puzzling when one considers that Germany’s current-account surplus, as a share of GDP, is now much larger than China’s.
此外，显然，北欧国家可以在加快缩小竞争力差距方面助一臂之力，办法是鼓励更快的工资增长。事实上，西方决策者将注意力集中在说服中国当局允许人民币更快升值上是令人困惑的，因为不论经常项目余额数目还是占GDP的比重，德国均远高于中国。