As a result, they abruptly switched from being destinations for capital to sources of capital, as their governments began accumulating huge precautionary hoards of overseas assets.

• 其后果则是，随着政府纷纷开始以海外资产的形式囤积大量的预防性资金，这些国家突然之间就从资本输入国摇身变成为资本输出国。