财政部长斯科特·贝森特推动国际货币基金组织指出“扭曲性政策”由非市场经济体实施，这些政策正给全球政策制定者带来挑战，这显然是在暗指中国及其仍在扩大的失衡。
Secretary Scott Bessent pushed the International Monetary Fund to call out “distortionary policies” by non-market economies that are posing challenges for global policymakers, in an apparent veiled reference to China and its still-growing imbalances.
“全球政策制定者正面临艰难讨论，即如何在一些经济体的扭曲性政策导致竞争扭曲、就业受损的情况下维持基于市场的体系，”贝森特说。“国际货币基金组织的成立正是为了防止此类扭曲性政策及其负面溢出效应，必须在这一关键问题上发挥其作用，否则可能被边缘化。”贝森特在向基金会和世界银行的指导小组发表的准备好的讲话中作出了上述表述，而这两个机构目前正在曼谷举行年度会议。财政部长未出席会议，而是派其副手参加。
“Policymakers around the world are having difficult discussions about how to sustain market-based systems amid distortionary policies from some economies that skew competition and hurt employment,” Bessent said. “The IMF was founded to prevent these kinds of distortive policies and negative spillovers, and must exercise its voice on this critical issue or risk being sidelined.”Bessent made the remarks in a prepared statement to the steering panels of the fund and the World Bank, which are currently holding annual meetings in Bangkok. The Treasury chief skipped attendance at the meetings, sending his deputy instead.
虽然他在谈到部署扭曲性政策时未提及中国，但财政部长经常表示，北京正在采取一些措施，使世界第二大经济体依赖出口并压制国内消费需求。
While he didn’t mention China in the context of deploying distortionary policies, the Treasury chief has regularly said Beijing pursues measures that leave the world’s No. 2 economy reliant on exports and curtail domestic consumer demand.
贝森特上个月对美国国会议员表示，国际货币基金组织正与中国就其失衡的性质以及这些失衡可能对全球金融稳定构成的潜在威胁进行“深入讨论”。9月，他主持了一次二十国集团会议，当时他表示，20个成员中有19个支持美国主导的声明，该声明称“非市场经济体源源不断地倾销廉价出口是不可持续的”。他说中国阻止了完全共识，因而未能达成联合公报。
Bessent told US lawmakers last month that the IMF is in “advanced discussions with China on the nature of their imbalances and the potential threats to global financial stability that those imbalances may pose.”In September, he led a Group of 20 meeting where he said 19 of 20 members signed on to a US-led statement that said “non-market based economies pushing out a never-ending spring of cheap exports is not sustainable.”He said China had thwarted a full consensus, and thereby a communique.
在周三的声明中，贝森特表示，国际货币基金组织应“加强对非市场政策和做法以及汇率在驱动外部失衡中所起作用的分析和参与”。当天早些时候，中国报告称其9月出口增长激增，使其贸易顺差有望超过去年创下的1.2万亿美元纪录。
In his statement Wednesday, Bessent said the IMF should be “strengthening its analysis and engagement on the role non-market policies and practices and exchange rates play in driving external imbalances.”Earlier in the day, China reported that its export growth surged in September, leaving its trade surplus on course to exceed the record of $1.2 trillion set last year.
贝森特还在向国际货币基金组织国际货币和金融委员会以及世界银行发展委员会的声明中表示，世界银行必须推动各国实现更大程度的自给自足 — — 包括通过取消银行对支持天然气以及上游石油和天然气项目的融资所施加的限制。
Bessent also said in his statement to the IMF’s International Monetary and Financial Committee and the World Bank Development Committee that the World Bank must promote more self-dependence in nations — including by removing restrictions on funding from the bank that support natural gas and upstream oil and gas projects.