From Germany's point of view, China could play a key role with its 3.2 trillion dollars of foreign currency reserves. However, Frankfurter Rundschau points out that the People's Republic will expect a gesture from Europe in return: for example -

EU recognition of China's status as a market economy, which would make it more difficult for European companies to take action against unfair competition or price dumping.

As a result, Handelsblatt remarks: the Chancellor, who can claim to be the leader that the Chinese believe "has taken charge of the drive to restore the euro," had no opportunity to promote bi-lateral relations as she had planned, and will now have to wait for further meetings later in the year to extract promises from the Chinese Prime Minister.