但是，2015年12月中国仍拥有3.3万亿美元储备，是其短期外债的四倍多 — — 远超一国在无法从国际市场上借贷的情况下偿清所有短期外部负债所需资金量的经验法则。
But, at $3.3 trillion in December 2015, China’s reserves are still enough to cover more than four times its short-term external debt – well in excess of the widely accepted rule of thumb that a country should still be able to fund all of its short-term foreign liabilities in the event that it is unable to borrow in international markets.