送交者: mangolasi 于 2005-7-24, 12:26:06:
回答: this time it's different as he rightfully pointed out 由 skipper3 于 2005-7-24, 11:45:33:
This one is very neutral. I don't even see "friends and foes" in this article. But China is really a potential competitor of US for natural resource. PK's solution? more research on energy saving.
The first part is his discription of the problem. The second part is the evalution of China's unpeg.
"In the long run, the economic effects of an end to China's dollar buying would even out. America would have more industrial workers and fewer real estate agents, more jobs in Michigan and fewer in Florida, leaving the overall level of employment pretty much unaffected. But as John Maynard Keynes pointed out, in the long run we are all dead.
In the short run, some people would win, but others would lose. And I suspect that the losers would greatly outnumber the winners."
I simply found his words convincing, as always--of course "I suspect" is permitted in the newspaper columns.