James Chapman
Mail Online
October 28, 2011
Europe is holding out the begging bowl to China in an effort to keep the rescue package for the single currency alive.
In a clear sign of how the balance of world power has tipped towards the East, EU leaders hope China can be persuaded to hand over huge sums to help bail out the eurozone.
In a further embarrassment, it emerged that the one trillion euro bailout fund announced in the early hours of yesterday does not really exist.
The pot contains only a quarter of that amount, and the rest of the money likely to be ‘leveraged’ – using the existing 250billon euros as security to borrow the rest.
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