Is China at Risk of Running Out of Foreign Reserves?

That is the theme of an article in the NYT yesterday with the headline, “China’s foreign exchange reserves dwindling rapidly.” The gist of the piece is that there has been a large outflow of capital from China in the last year, which has caused them to lose as much as $800 billion from their foreign reserves. According to the piece, China is down to its last $3.2 trillion.

If the idea of a country with $3.2 trillion in foreign reserves worrying about empty coffers sounds silly, it should. Chi...