Within hours of declaring her leadership at home, Merkel announced her visit to Beijing. The timing was highly significant: Merkel goes to China, the emerging global power, after declaring her own commitment to strengthening the eurozone, if not the EU as a whole, as a credible pole of an emerging multipolar world.
在宣布了自己的欧元区领导者地位之后几小时，默克尔就宣布将访问北京。这样的时间安排意义重大：她宣布将担起巩固欧元区（如果不是欧盟的话）作为新兴多极世界一大可信极点的地位，随后便将访问新兴全球大国中国。