美国《巴尔的摩太阳报》10月11日刊登署名文章,认为“中国的经济耐心使它免遭亚洲危机的冲击”。文章认为,经济危机开始席卷亚洲一年多以后,中国依然是一块政治稳定和相对繁荣的土地。 日本陷入衰退,马来西亚抗议者走上街头,印尼几十年的经济进步化为乌有,而中国经济增长虽然减速,但仍显得相当强劲。 在如今全球资本主义变幻莫测之际,迄今为止中国设法经受住该地区几十年来最严峻的经济危机的做法提供了一条令人关注的经验:有时,等一等是有好处的。 引起亚洲金融灾难的一些问题同样困扰着中国,包括腐败猖獗和 The U.S. Baltimore Sun published a signed article on October 11th that “China’s economic patience keeps it from being hit by the Asian crisis.” The article holds that after more than a year after the economic crisis began to swell across Asia, China remained a land of political stability and relative prosperity. Japan was in a recession, Malaysian protesters took to the streets, and decades of economic progress in Indonesia went to nothing, while China’s economic growth, though slowing, remained quite strong. At a time of unpredictable global capitalism, China’s experience so far in trying to withstand the worst economic crisis in the region in decades has provided one interesting lesson: sometimes it is good to wait. Some of the problems that have caused the Asian financial catastrophe also plague China, including the rampant corruption and