The possibility of a US dollar collapse or sharp decline may be small at this point but it would generate very significant turmoil so East Asian economies... ought to be ready for that.

Masahiro Kawai

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Our suggestion to Asian countries is: Don't take this continuous financing of the U.S. current account deficit as a given.

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