China 'caught in US money trap'  
 

China is estimated to have currency reserves of two trillion dollars, but the bulk of it is tied up in US markets.

Caught in a "dollar trap", it has little choice but to buy more and more US government bonds to keep up the value of the dollar and hope a US recovery takes place - and quickly.

Al Jazeera's Owen Fay reports.

 
 

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