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英译汉

Broken BRICs （毁了的“金砖四国）

Why the Rest Stopped Rising

By Ruchir Sharma

November/December 2012

Over the past several years, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the so-called rise of the rest, which saw the economies of many developing countries swiftly converging with those of their more developed peers. The primary engines behind this phenomenon were the four major emerging-market countries, known as the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The world was witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime shift, the argument went, in which the major players in the developing world were catching up to or even surpassing their counterparts in the developed world.

These forecasts typically took the developing world's high growth

rates from the middle of the last decade and extended them straight into the future, juxtaposing them against predicted sluggish growth

in the United States and other advanced industrial countries. Such exercises supposedly proved that, for example, China was on the verge of overtaking the United States as the world's largest economy-a

point that Americans clearly took to heart, as over 50 percent of them, according to a Gallup poll conducted this year, said they think that China is already the world's "leading" economy, even though the U.S. economy is still more than twice as large (and with a per capita income seven times as high).

As with previous straight-line projections of economic trends, however-such as forecasts in the 1980s that Japan would soon be number one economically-later returns are throwing cold water on the extravagant predictions. With the world economy heading for its worst year since 2009, Chinese growth is slowing sharply, from double

digits down to seven percent or even less. And the rest of the BRICs are tumbling, too: since 2008, Brazil's annual growth has dropped

from 4.5 percent to two percent; Russia's, from seven percent to 3.5 percent; and India's, from nine percent to six percent.

None of this should be surprising, because it is hard to sustain

rapid growth for more than a decade. The unusual circumstances of the last decade made it look easy: coming off the crisis-ridden 1990s and fueled by a global flood of easy money, the emerging markets took off in a mass upward swing that made virtually every economy a winner. By 2007, when only three countries in the world suffered negative growth, recessions had all but disappeared from the international scene. But now, there is a lot less foreign money flowing into emerging markets. The global economy is returning to its normal state of churn, with many laggards and just a few winners rising in unexpected places. The implications of this shift are striking, because economic momentum is power, and thus the flow of money to rising stars will reshape the global balance of power.

【译文出自网络，仅供参考】

为何“其它国家”停止增长？

全球经济中提到最多的趋势是所谓的“其它国家”的崛起。过去的几年见证了许多发展中国家经济迅速接近发达国家水平。此现象背后最重要的动力来自四个主要的新兴市场国家，即“金砖四国”：巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国。世界见证着一生一次的转变，持这种主张的人说：主要的发展中国家正在赶超主要的发达国家。

这些经济预测通常假设2005年左右发展中国家的高增长率会延续到将来。与之相并列的是预言美国和其它先进工业国增长疲缓。据说有例子可以证明。中国快要夺走美国最大经济体的宝座。这点美国人记住了--据今年的一次盖普洛民意调查，超过一半的美国人认为（中国已经是世界“最大”经济体），即使美国经济规模比前者的两倍还多（且美国人均收入是中国的七倍）。

然而，正如过去的那些对经济趋势的直线投射（译注：指上文中，将当前增长率直接用于预测未来发展），例如八十年代有人预言日本将不久成为世界经济第一，后来的结果给那些夸张的预测浇一盆冷水。在世界经济处于自2009年以来最坏的一个年头，中国经济增长突然放缓，增长率从两位数降到7%或甚至更少。剩下的金砖三国也不好过：从2008年巴西年增长从4.5%降到2%；俄罗斯从7%跌至3.5%；印度则从9%落到6%。

这并不奇怪，因为很难在十多年间保持经济高速增长。过去十年不寻常的环境使增长看起来简单：新兴市场从危机四伏的九十年代脱身，又收到全球巨额热钱的刺激。它们一下子集体高速增长，让每个经济体好像都是赢家。至2007年，全球只有三个国家经济负增长，萧条几乎从国际视野消失。而今，流入新兴市场的外汇大大减少。全球经济被打回原形，重回一团浆糊。大多数国家经济放缓，只有少数几个赢家出现在意想不到的地方。这种转变的含义引人注目，因为经济动力意味着权力，所以资金流向崛起的明星国家将重塑全球权力平衡格局。

汉译英（翻译划线部分）

社评：美把中国公司当“特洛伊木马”太荒唐

美商务部前副部长：中美贸易争端成总统选战牺牲品

美把中国公司当“特洛伊木马”太荒唐。

美中经济与安全评估委员会星期三出具了一份156页的报告，对中国公司的在美投资做了充满警惕的描述。它宣称来自中国的大型投资给美国制造的经济和安全风险就像“潜在的特洛伊木马”，这样的比喻颇令我们震惊。

一个简单的反应是：美国在华投资规模要大得多，很多公司同美国政府“关系密切”，按照上述报告提供的逻辑，中国境内现在已经有了多少“潜在的特洛伊木马”呢？

中国人这些年居然还睡得着觉，中国各地政府仍在积极对外招商引资，他们大概都该立刻警觉起来，抓美国在中国的“特洛伊木马”。

重要的是，中国没有“美中经济与安全评估委员会”这种专门拆两国经济合作台的机构设置，即使有哪个组织“管闲事”拿出类似的报告，告诉中国人微软和IBM等等都可能是潜在的“颠覆中国”的机构，写这些报告的人一定会在舆论场上被唾沫淹没。

中美的互视心态的确在出现历史性转变，过去时时刻刻担心美国“亡我之心不死”的中国人，开始变得或者豁达了，或者盲目乐观了。而原来什么都不在乎的美国人，突然有了草木皆兵的紧张，不仅中国“间谍”多多，而且在美的中资公司也都像是“鬼鬼祟祟”。

我们的确搞不清楚，这些警惕里面有多少成分是美国人的真实担忧，有多少成分是那些管事的美国人“装蒜”，那些奇奇怪怪的莫须有罪名或许只是他们搞经济保护的幌子。

全球化进程不断对国际分工的格局施加新压力，长期处在产业链最上游的美国渐渐有了危机感。过去帮助美欧跨国企业完成最佳性价比制造环节的中国公司，如今有一些开始了技术创新竞争以及投资竞争，它们被认为触动了美欧利益最肥厚的那一块，对一些国家的核心竞争力构成潜在威胁。

这样的情绪同星期三的那份报告有多少直接联系我们不清楚，但它们的确在西方世界、包括在美国精英中蔓延。我们可以体谅它们的出现，但为平息它们，决不能以中国的单方面让步做代价。如果我们纵容这些情绪肆无忌惮地转化成行动，那将意味着世界自由贸易体系倒下一张关键的多米诺骨牌，意味着中国坐视中资企业被肆意欺侮，坐视国家利益被随意侵犯。

美国需要克制在竞争和挑战面前的惊慌，克制用“安全手段”帮助本国公司解困的邪门歪道。美国需要以诚实的态度应对新兴国家的产业升级，美国如此强大，回旋空间充裕，美国要想永保世界第一位置，必须靠真功夫，而不能靠损人利己的投机取巧。

作为GDP总量刚到美国一半的发展中国家，要对美国苦口婆心讲如何正确竞争的道理，这真让我们意外，甚至都不好意思。美国实在不应耍赖皮，它有堂堂正正的资本，它应当像个超级大国的样子。

无独有偶，美国国际贸易委员会星期三决定对中国光伏产品征收反补贴和反倾销关税，中国的报复措施必将出现。如果说美国真的在“衰落”，本文说到的两个委员会决不是这种“衰落”的阻止者，而是推波助澜者。

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