Seen in this light, China’s spectacular economic success – including the world’s largest trade surplus and foreign-currency reserves – owes much to US policy from the 1970’s on. Without the significant expansion in US-Chinese trade and financial relations, China’s growth would have been much slower and more difficult to sustain.
如此看来，中国令人瞩目的经济成功——包括世界最大规模的贸易盈余和外汇储备——的军功章有美国20世纪70年代以来对华政策的一半。没有美中贸易和金融关系的大扩展，中国的增长就会缓慢得多，也难以维持。