ability of these countries, now substantial countries, to pay their debts? >> well, europe shouldn't have to handle that. europe needs to deal decisively with it, and i've spent much of my last six weeks discussing this issue with fellow european finance ministers. and i think there are two components to the solution. one is the euro zone, the countries that have the euro as their currency, need to come up with a decisive plan to deal with the imbalances in a single currency area when you don't also have a single political area or single fiscal area. second almost to the solution is that countries need to resolve their own problems. ireland's got a major banking problem, and is now with international support dealing with it. portugal's got a long-term productivity problem and needs to address that. spain had got problems in its regional banks and is addressing that. so yes, the euro's got to act, but the individual countries have got to act. >> when you watch the chinese,