China’s position on bailing out the eurozone is as ambivalent as, well, Germany’s. That is one way of reading last week’s meeting between Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Mr Wen said Beijing was “investigating and evaluating ways in which it can get more deeply involved in solving the European debt problem”. That line could have been scripted in Berlin, so accurately does it sum up Germany’s position. Translation: sure we are interested in helping the eurozone, but on our terms.
在紓困歐元區的問題上,中國的立場與德國一樣矛盾。這是對上週中國總理溫家寶和德國總理安格拉•梅克爾(Angela Merkel)會談的一種解讀。溫家寶表示,中國正對通過各種管道,對「更多參與解決歐債問題進行研究和評估」。他的講話稿可能是德國政府給寫的,所以才能那麼準確地概括出德國的立場。其含義是,我們確實有興趣幫助歐元區,但你們得按我們的條件來。