donkeys fight elephants?

“The ugliest part of the saga is that the well-being of many other countries is also in the impact zone when the donkey and the elephant fight,” the state-run news agency, Xinhua — considered the propaganda arm of the Communist Party — said in an opinion piece Friday

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/business/global/global-concern-over-us-debt-ceiling-disagreement.html?ref=global-home