Despite some hopes to the contrary, China is unlikely to be able or willing to do much to solve the debt crisis in the euro-zone. China was presumably already buying a significant amount of peripheral government bonds last year and yet this has not prevented their yields from rising sharply, let alone done anything to tackle the much deeper structural problems in the euro-zone.
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