China has a big surplus, but of the former "crisis countries" only Malaysia has a large surplus (11% of GDP).

中国确实有巨大盈余，但在前“金融危机国”中，只有马来西亚的盈余很大(占gdp的11%)。

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Between 2001 and 2006 (when America's trade deficit peaked), the increase in emerging Asia's trade surplus with America accounted for only 6% of the region's GDP growth.

2001年至2006年期间(美国贸易逆差达到顶峰之时)亚洲对美国贸易顺差额只占该地区GDP增长量的6%。

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And it's only now, as we're waking up from that collective bender, that we're starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a crisis.

而只有到了今天，当我们从那场集体狂欢中醒来，我们才开始将认知盈余看作一项资产而不是一场危机。

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He returns the others to his colleague to show that he has taken only the correct number, and the surplus envelopes are destroyed without being opened.

ECONOMIST: Cryptography

In other words, haggling not only determines how the surplus from trade is divided, it also reduces the surplus once the cost of the haggling is taken into account.

FORBES: Haggling, Social Norms, and Economic Efficiency

Given actual exchange-rate movements, the IMF reckons that if the only thing surplus countries had done was to let their currencies rise, then growth might have ended up declining by between two and four percentage points.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus