坚守银本位的难兄难弟银本位的最后堡垒,正是东亚的中国和中美洲的墨西哥。1873年的时候,世界上还有一半的国家把西班牙和墨西哥生产的白银比索作为法定货币,但到了1900年,只有中国和墨西哥还坚持以银币作为货币。由于大部分国家,特别是英国、美国这样的政治和经济大国放弃以白银作为 It is the East Asian China and Central America’s Mexico that stood the last bastion of the silver standard of the most beloved brother of the silver standard. In 1873, half of the countries in the world took the silver pesos produced in Spain and Mexico as legal tender, but by 1900 only China and Mexico had insisted on using silver as their currency. Since most countries, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, have abandoned silver as a political and economic power