China's proven reserves, and expected resources, fall into four general geographical areas.

China's $3.2 trillion foreign reserves have been falling for three months despite the trade surplus.

The reserve again, falling like a shadow across his voice.

The reserves fell 8 percent in July, to $2.4 billion.

But the bank also said it would allow those reserves to fall short of its target under certain circumstances.

A Stage 3 alert is automatically called if reserves fall below 1.5 percent.

For the rest of the decade the reserves never fell below third place, and were champions a further five times.

The reach of the global economy also explains why reserves have fallen so low already.

And as gold reserves fell below $100 million in April 1893, the panic was on.

But Japan's reserves have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of 1988.