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We know that both Nicholas Sarkozy and Klaus Regling, head of the eurozone's Luxembourg-based bail-out fund, have been kowtowing to the Chinese, begging them to hand over billions to the latest eurozone bail-out attempt. For the moment, it won't happen. The Chinese say they will not give any money until this latest spasm in the eurozone debt crisis clears and some kind of stability is restored. (That'll be a wait, then.)

But the shame of the euro-grovelling to the one-party Chinese communist state remains -- and has intensified today, as news of the latest Tibetan suicide by self-immolation reaches the Western news agencies.

AFP reports that Qiu Xiang, a 35-year-old Tibetan Buddhist nun died today after setting herself on fire in southwest China. This was the 11th such incident involving Tibetan monks and nuns.

According to the International Campaign for Tibet, her death was a call for religious freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet who has been exiled and vilified by the Chinese communist government since 1959.

In recent months eleven, eleven, Buddhist monks and nuns have found the courage to douse themselves in petrol and set themselves alight: self-destruction is the only weapon they have. Meanwhile, the EU elite ignore these deaths and go on grovelling to the Chinese who have driven the Tibetans to this.

Yet once attitudes to such courage were much different in Europe. In 1969, Jan Palach, a young Czech student, went to Wenceslas Square in Prague, poured petrol over himself and set himself alight. It was a protest at the Soviet communist invasion of his country that had suppressed the attempts by the Czech government to bring freedom to their country, and a cry to his fellow Czechs to resist.

Palach's death rocked the Western World. Below is a picture of a cross marking the spot where he carried out his self-immolation.

Through the years of communist suppression, Palach's name was never forgotten.

One could trace the 1989 Velvet Revolution which finally freed Czechoslovakia from communist rule back to that day when Palach found the sort of courage the rest of us will never find: because we, most of us, are not like Palach, we are not heroes.

But let us not be Quislings, either. What the eurozone is doing, when it seeks to collaborate with China in return for money, is showing how morals across the European continent have degenerated since 1969. When Tibetans plead for freedom from communist oppression, just as Palach once did, now the so-called leaders of Europe look the other way and pretend they don't see what is happening in China.

You probably know this line ascribed to the Emperor Vespasian: 'Pecunia non olet.' Money has no smell. It has come to mean that money itself is not tainted by its origins.

But I say it is. And I say the moment the Chinese touch the euro, it will smell of the burning flesh of heroes.