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Putin: US is parasite on global economy
普京：美国犹如寄生虫

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets, Reuters reported.

据路透社报道，周一，俄罗斯总理弗拉基米尔·普京指责美国入不敷出的生活方式就像“寄生虫”一样侵蚀着世界经济，并称美元的主导地位对金融市场构成威胁。

"They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told the youth group Nashi. "They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar."

普京对青年组织“纳什”表示：“他们生活入不敷出，把自己的问题部分转嫁给了世界经济。他们靠着世界经济和美元的垄断地位像寄生虫一样生活。”

But Putin noted that Russia holds a large amount of U.S. bonds and treasuries. "If over there (in America) there is a systemic malfunction, this will affect everyone," he said. "Countries like Russia and China hold a significant part of their reserves in American securities... There should be other reserve currencies."

(China.org.cn August 3, 2011)

但普京指出，俄罗斯持有大量的美国债券和国库券。他说：“如果那儿（美国）体制出问题，将会影响到每一个人。像俄罗斯、中国这样的国家，很大部分的外汇储备是美国债券……世界应有其它种类的储备货币。”