For a moment, it looked as if a contagious crisis, driven by fears of government over-indebtedness, would destroy the politically fragile compromise that European countries had carefully constructed over a 50-year period. The turning point in this spring’s euro panic came when big holders of reserve currencies signaled that they saw the need for the euro as an alternative to the increasingly problematic dollar and the equally vulnerable yen.
中国同时也遵循着金德博格的经济信条：在对政府过度负债的恐惧推动下，一度不断蔓延的危机似乎要摧毁欧洲人苦心经营了50余年的脆弱政治承诺（欧盟）。但今年春天发生的欧元恐慌却迎来了转机，那些手握巨额外汇储备的国家暗示说希望将欧元作为危机不断的美元以及日元的替代货币。于是中国开始大幅买入欧盟政府债券，而一个高规格的中国商团甚至奔赴希腊去收购当地被低估的地产。