I think we're forgetting many of the current generation of economists working for the Chinese government now have a foreign college education: Ivy League colleges, Stanford, UCLA and UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Oxford, Cambridge, etc.
When Chinese economists express doubt about the Eurozone, the whole world listens.
There are also those of us, not Chinese at all, who have referred to EU as 'Wonderland' and EMU, aka the Euro, as 'the Fishwrapper' for at least a decade.
Milton Friedman had this nonsense pegged absolutely spot-on in his 1995 and 1997 essays upon the subject. These essays WILL repay your effort in reading them VERY handsomely.
FReegards!