澳大利亚财长吉姆·查尔默斯表示，美国与伊朗的战争是一场经济灾难，指责这场冲突导致全球通胀和借贷成本上升，并警告称这也在抑制全球增长。
By Matthew Brockett Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the US war with Iran has been an economic disaster, blaming the conflict for higher inflation and borrowing costs worldwide and warning it’s also damping global growth.
“无论介入的理由是什么，从经济角度来看，中东战争都是一场灾难，”查尔默斯周日在澳广公司《内幕》节目中表示。“从生活成本角度来看，这对澳大利亚人乃至全世界人民都是灾难性的。中东战争给通胀带来了非常巨大的上行压力。这就是为什么我们看到全球利率上升的原因。”
“Whatever the reasons were for going in, from an economic point of view the war in the Middle East has been a disaster,” Chalmers told the Insiders program on ABC News on Sunday. “It’s been disastrous from a cost-of-living point of view, for Australians and indeed for people right around the world. The war in the Middle East is putting very substantial upward pressure on inflation. That’s why we’re seeing interest rates go up around the world.”
当被问及唐纳德·特朗普是否应立即结束战争时，查尔默斯表示他不想给美国总统提建议，但战争结束“越快越好”。“这场冲突拖得越久，对全球经济和澳大利亚经济的影响就越大，”他说。
Asked if Donald Trump should end the war now, Chalmers said he didn’t want to give the US president advice, but an end to the war “can’t come soon enough.”“The longer this thing drags out, the bigger the impact on the global economy and on the Australian economy,” he said.
在央行将利率提高至15年来最高水平以抑制价格增长后，查默斯面临着有关政府支出在助长高于目标通胀方面所扮演的角色的质疑，理由是中东冲突和国内产能压力导致的能源价格上涨。他表示，政府支出增长已经放缓，“预算设置并不是我们经济中价格的主要驱动力”。
Chalmers was facing questions about the role government spending has played in fueling above-target inflation after the central bank raised interest rates to a 15-year high to curb price growth, citing both elevated energy prices due to the Middle East conflict and domestic capacity pressures. He said government spending growth has slowed and “budget settings are not the primary driver of prices in our economy.”
他表示，政府正在制定一项储蓄计划，将在年中预算更新中宣布，并警告说，全球债券收益率上升也将导致公共债务偿还成本增加“数十亿美元”。
The government is working on a savings package to be announced in the mid-year budget update, he said, and cautioned that rising global bond yields will also drive up the cost of servicing public debt by “some billions of dollars.”
查默斯说：“不仅我们的预算，而且世界各地的预算都面临着非常非常巨大且日益加剧的压力。”“现在我们将在年中预算更新中制定一个节省计划。这一切如何抵消所有日益加剧的压力，包括债券收益率和借贷成本的上升，仍有待观察。”查尔默斯表示，美伊战争也影响了全球扩张。
“There is very, very substantial and intensifying pressure, not just on our budget but on budgets right around the world,” Chalmers said. “Now we will have a savings package in the mid-year budget update. How that all nets out with all of the intensifying pressures, including from this increase in bond yields and borrowing costs, remains to be seen.”Chalmers said the US-Iran war was also impacting the global expansion.
“我们预计这里不会出现衰退”，但“这肯定会给全球增长带来压力，我们也无法幸免，”他说。
“We’re not anticipating a recession here” but “certainly it is weighing on global growth, and we’re not immune from that,” he said.
另外，查尔默斯宣布，他将于周日晚些时候前往日本，会见日本财务大臣片山五月以及商界领袖和投资者。
Separately, Chalmers announced he will travel to Japan later Sunday to meet with Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama as well as business leaders and investors.
他在一份声明中表示：“虽然我们有许多机会，但由于全球不确定性，我们也面临着许多类似的挑战，无论是能源价格上涨推高通胀，还是债券收益率上涨给我们的预算带来压力。”“这一切都是为了促进投资、增强燃料安全和弹性，并在不确定时期拉近澳大利亚和日本的距离。”
“While we share many opportunities, we also face many similar challenges as a result of global uncertainty, whether it’s higher energy prices driving up inflation or higher bond yields that are putting pressure on our budgets,” he said in a statement. “This is all about boosting investment, bolstering fuel security and resilience, and bringing Australia and Japan closer together in uncertain times.”