这正是20世纪90年代末亚洲金融危机期间最大的担忧，当时，人们广泛预期中国将步其他所谓的东亚奇迹经济体后尘。 这些经济体因为本币遭遇传染性袭击（contagious attack）而耗尽湖北。
This was precisely the greatest fear during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, when China was widely expected to follow other so-called East Asian miracle economies that had run out of reserves in the midst of a contagious attack on their currencies.