Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Paper Dragon has confidence in the EU...

...and supporting export markets it deems to have good growth prospects.

The nation has been buying "quite a lot" of European bonds, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to the People's Bank of China who was part of a foreign-policy advisory committee that visited France, Spain and Germany from June 20 to July 2. Japan's Ministry of Finance said Aug. 9 that China bought 1.73 trillion yen ($US20.3 billion) more Japanese debt than it sold in the first half of 2010, the fastest pace of purchases in at least five years.

"Diversification should be a basic principle," Yu, president of the China Society of World Economy, said in an interview last week, adding a "top-level Chinese central banker" told him to convey to European policy makers China's confidence in the region's economy and currency. "We didn't sell any European bonds or assets, instead we bought quite a lot."

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