BEIJING, China (CNN) -- James Miles, of The Economist, has just returned from Lhasa, Tibet. The following is a transcript of an interview he gave to CNN. James Miles

So in effect what they did was sacrifice the livelihoods of many, many ethnic Han Chinese in the city for the sake of letting the rioters vent their anger. And then being able to move in gradually with troops with rifles that they occasionally let off with single shots, apparently warning shots, in order to scare everybody back into their homes and put an end to this.

Well the Chinese response to this was very interesting. B

I would suggest that China's January reserves data provides an equally compelling case for a reconsideration of the world's global monetary architecture. An international monetary system that requires this kind of official intervention - and likely will lead to more inflation in the emerging world than the emerging world wants and more government ownership of financial assets in the US and Europe than the US and European public wants -- strikes me as hard to sustain for much longer.

China added $55b to its reserves. Saudi Arabia added $18b to its foreign assets in January. Those two countries combined to add around $73b to their central banks portfolios. That means that those two countries alone could have supplied the $62.5b a month the US needs to sustain a $750b current account deficit and still had a bit left over to buy euros. Or they could have provided enough money to finance capital outflows from the US along with a current account deficit.It kind of makes you wonder why the US goes through the motions of selling Treasury and Agency bonds on the open market rather than doing direct placements with a few big central banks.

总需求的强劲增长，无疑降低了产能过剩的严重性。但值得警惕的是，总需求增长中，相当大一部分是投资的贡献。虽然投资需求的增加在短期内延缓了产能过剩的暴露，但随着投资项目的建成投产，更多的产能将会出现，而这显然会加剧今后的产能过剩问题。

由于产出增长过多依赖出口和投资，一旦全球经济出现明显放缓，外需减弱，不但出口行业的产能过剩会明显暴露，而且与出口相关的投资也会冷却。这会通过第二轮的投资减速来进一步暴露产能过剩的严重性。其实，即便没有国外需求的

What is occurring is the meltdown of the biggest pyramid game in human history.

The right course of action is for the US government to establish a Resolution Trust Corporation to take over failing financial institutions, including hedge funds and private equity firms, and leave the Fed to tackle inflation. But a Republican administration could not go to a Democratic Congress for money to capitalise such a corporation. It could not justify spending US$1 trillion to bail out those who deceived investors around the world and destroyed the finest financial institutions in America for their own gains. Instead, the Fed will be called on to save the financial system, boost the economy and suppress inflation at the same time.

用最简单的话概括今天的中美贸易关系，就是“我生产，你进口；我贷款，你消费。”由中国出口到美国的，是林林总总、五花八门的人民劳动成果；然而，十多亿人民辛勤血汗交换回来的，不过只是一些纸张、票据，一些没有任何意图或企图实践的“还款承诺”。那些相信“中国威胁论”的人，是否应该把脑袋送去检查检查？

为了保持出口竞争力，中国必须不断增加人民币供应，去吸纳出口商赚回来的美元，再用来购买美债，好让这些美元能够“再循环”到美国。换句话说，美国通过不断发钞和发债去维持高消费，事实上是对中国（及其它贸易顺差国）输出通胀。

一直以来，中国领导人与布什政府的君子协定，就是中方利用贸易盈余大量购进美国国库债券、机构债券（即房屋抵押贷款机构如Fannie Mae等发行的债券）及私营企业债券，为美国提供低息借贷；而总统布什则运用否决权，令国会内的保护主义势力无法得逞。两国领导人之间的默契，明显是建立在互惠互利的基础上。对中国而言，偏低的人民币汇率无疑有助提升出口竞争力，实现高增长和制造就业的目标。对美国来说，消费者既可享用价廉物美的进口产品，也可以获得源源不绝的低息借贷，继续尽情消费。廉价进口产品有助纾缓物价上涨的趋势，而再循环到美国的美元，则有助消弭利率上调压力，带动物业及其它资产升值。

Those who think inflation is caused by too little pork rather than too much money are wrong.”

As a result, China and the Gulf are importing a very expansionary US monetary policy at a time when their economies are growing rapidly and inflation rates are picking up.

The US slowdown and associated series of rate cuts have just made the cost of dollar pegs a lot more visible now

Charts mapping investment growth over the five-yearly changes in government show clear spikes when the new guard goes on a spending spree

For now, businesses are already grappling with rising production costs