In previous regional agreements, like capital subscriptions to the Asian Development Bank, China had always been treated as a second-rate power and asked to contribute less. Indeed, China had shunned Japan’s 1997 proposal to create an Asian Monetary Fund precisely because it worried that it would play second fiddle.
人们都说就出资比例达成的共识很重要，因为中国和日本将各自出资32%。在此前的地区性协议中，比如在亚洲开发银行资本金出资比例上，中国总是被当作第二档的大国来对待，承担较小的出资义务。实际上，中国之所以对1997年日本提出的建立亚洲货币基金的倡议避而不谈，正是因为它担心自己只轮到一个次要角色。如今中国得到了和日本平起平坐的地位，这意味着它将不会阻碍进一步合作的开展。