China offers help to debt-hit Lisbon

China has promised 'concrete measures' to help Portugal, which is struggling to avert a sovereign debt crisis, November 2010, with support that is expected to include purchases of Portuguese government debt.

Público, 8.11.10: Beijing is buying our connivance (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/379981-beijing-buying-our-connivance

ESO: Background information: China bites into Europe’s soft underbelly http://www.europeansources.info/record/china-bites-into-europes-soft-underbelly/

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