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BEIJING\'S BRAVADO DISTRACTS FROM ITS OWN ROLE

A few weeks ago, five Chinese vessels, two of them fishing trawlers, surrounded a US naval ship, the Impeccable, off Hainan island in the South China Sea. When the US survey ship responded with fire hoses, the Chinese crewmen stripped down to their underwear and – according to some reports – bared their bottoms.

The slightly surreal stand-off, which drew a sharp protest from Washington, was carefully calibrated. Though it fell well short of a military exchange, it nevertheless sent a message that Beijing was not prepared to tolerate routine US spying missions in waters it considers its own.

In the more cerebral world of monetary policy, Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central bank governor, has sent a carefully calibrated signal of his own. While he stopped short of baring his bottom, he published a paper, neatly timed to appear just before the Group of 20 developed and emerging nations summit, in which he proposed replacing the dollar with an international reserve currency. In a detailed and serious analysis, he suggested expanding the scope and function of special drawing rights, a unit of account used by the International Monetary Fund.

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戴維•皮林(David Pilling)現爲《金融時報》非洲事務主編。先前他是FT亞洲版主編。他的專欄涉及到商業、投資、政治和經濟方面的話題。皮林1990年加入FT。他曾經在倫敦、智利、阿根廷工作過。在成爲亞洲版主編之前,他擔任FT東京分社社長。

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