The United Kingdom is debating whether to discontinue aid to India, the third-largest recipient of capital inflows and the home of the UK’s largest manufacturing employer, the Tata Group. Likewise, eurozone countries have been looking to long-time aid recipient China, which holds $2.5 trillion of US government debt, to help them overcome their own debt crisis.
事实上，近几年来，如何定义受助国变得越来越值得商榷。英国在讨论是否停止对印度的援助，后者是当今第三大资本流入国，也是英国最大制造业雇主塔塔集团（Tata Group）的母国。类似地，欧元区国家眼巴巴地望着中国帮助它们克服债务危机，而中国是老牌受助国，如今持有2.5万亿美元美国国债。