The trade surplus pours a steady stream of foreign-currency export earnings into China, funds the central bank buys up in exchange for local currency and holds in its official reserves.

贸易顺差给中国带来了稳定的外汇出口收益，给中国央行提供了收购资金以交换本币并维持官方储备。

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India has been able to accumulate over $250 billion of reserves in the past few years without ever running a trade surplus.

在过去短短几年中，印度在没有经营贸易顺差的情况下，能够积累价值超过2500亿的美元储备。

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Sadly, none of these has worked. With large capital inflows and a current account surplus, China's foreign exchange reserves have continued to rise rapidly.

遗憾的是，由于巨额资金流入以及经常账户盈余，这些政策无法遏制中国外汇储备的持续迅速增长。

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Although China still runs a huge current-account surplus, it is no longer accumulating foreign-exchange reserves at a rapid clip, as capital is flowing out of the country.

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The island runs a large trade surplus, and its foreign reserves are the world's fourth largest, behind China, Japan, and Russia.

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Yet mitigating the risk of default is the fact that Ecuador's ability to service its debt has improved in recent months, as high energy prices, increased taxation of the oil sector and the state's take-over of Block 15 previously run by a US company, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), are boosting the fiscal surplus and foreign reserves.

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