The two leaders then sat down to discuss world trouble spots, Russia, the Asian financial crisis.
Hong Kong has experienced bank runs before, most recently in 1997 during the Asian financial crisis.
The exception is emerging Europe, which is, in many ways, reliving the Asian financial crisis.
It was one of the big bank failures of the Asian financial crisis.
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Roly under Robert's guidance overexpanded and ran into other problems when the Asian financial crisis hit in 1997-98.
The Asian financial crisis walloped the mining industry, cutting demand for GST products.
The Asian financial crisis of 1998 began not in Malaysia, but in Thailand.
Defence spending slowed sharply after the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98, when many planes and ships were already old.
Many currencies tumbled during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, slashing the dollar value of their economies.
During the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 the Chinese held the yuan steady as currencies all about them crumbled.
Think of multinational corporations clear-cutting tropical forests, home-grown movies being squeezed out by Hollywood blockbusters, and the Asian Financial Crisis.
In the Asian financial crisis, the IMF supported punishingly high interest rates to defend the region's currencies and combat inflation.
But this mood of concern has dissipated since policy mistakes and the Asian financial crisis hobbled Japan in a recession.
Anthony's College, Oxford, points out that the IMF changed tack in dealing with the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
Though the Asian financial crisis has trimmed the family empire considerably, the former President and his children retain a staggering fortune.
Mr Zhou earned international respect during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98.
Japan and the rest of Asia had been hit by the Asian financial crisis.
And the local currency's 18% depreciation against the U.S. dollar since the onset of the Asian financial crisis has brought costs way down.
Companies in the countries affected by the Asian financial crisis are not only seeing their shares performing better than stocks on Wall Street.
Two major shocks then aggravated that fiscal restraint: the Asian financial crisis, which pummelled exports, and the collapse of several big financial institutions.
China has weathered patches of growth well below recent double-digit rates before without major upheaval notably after the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
Following the Asian financial crisis of 1997, and with the world's attention focused firmly on technology, investment by energy and mining companies dropped precipitously.
"I am thankful and grateful for divine blessings that we were able to emerge from the Asian financial crisis much stronger financially, " he says.
In 1998 Goldman got ready to go public, prodded by Jon Corzine, but then retreated and scrapped the stock offering amid the Asian financial crisis.
Foreign punters flirted with local stockmarkets in the year before the Asian financial crisis, for example, but were then embarrassed by the losses they incurred.
Then came the Asian financial crisis, and lenders began recalling loans.
As a result, at the end of 2011 Thailand suffered its biggest quarterly contraction in GDP (9% year-on-year) since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98.
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It signals a winding down of the pump-priming policy brought in to maintain high economic growth in the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997.
In January 1999, as the Asian financial crisis spread to Latin America, the Brazilian government abandoned the dollar peg and the value of Brazil's real tumbled.
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