The external current account has switched from a deficit of almost 10% of GDP in 2008 to a surplus, and not only because of import compression.

外部经常账户已经由2008年的占GDP10%的财政赤字转为了盈余，这还不仅仅是因为进口压缩导致的。

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The other reason for concern about China's external position is that the country is still running a huge current account surplus – near to 8 per cent of GDP.

对中国外部处境感到担心的另一个理由是，该国仍有巨额经常账户盈余，接近GDP的8%。

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Yet the euro's external balance concealed a huge internal divide between places like Germany, with excess savings, and countries such as Spain and Greece, with huge current-account deficits.

但是欧元对外的平衡却掩盖了一些国家与国家之间巨大的内部差距。比如德国拥有多余的储蓄，而西班牙和希腊却负担着庞大的经常项目赤字。

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Although many big emerging markets have built up foreign-exchange reserves and cut their external debts, in eastern Europe reserves have been flat, external debts have risen and current- account deficits have grown considerably in the past decade.

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Analysts give diverse reasons for the meltdown, most pointing to the current account deficit fueled by numerous infrastructure mega-projects that rely on external financing in U.S. dollars.

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