Puzzleman,The Chinese are continuing to play this game because they too are hoping that the lunatics in Washington will pull something off and allow US households to continue to buy more Chinese crap and keep their boom in exports going. Hope springs eternal.

They are not helping us out because they are a bunch of nice guys and just love us Americans.

Sooner or later as the buying continues to slow, they are going to start demanding much higher interest rates for their money or will simply just get out of the game involving us and do their own thing, which could be anything. When this type of event happens, it may happen very quickly. Bull