Cut your best deal with China. Now

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Toying with its economic and foreign policy has led China down the same road as with anything else 'Made in China'. What Pacific Investment Management Company's (PIMCO) office in Singapore foretold few days ago through the media didn't sound quite true at that time. But this is perhaps what the world was waiting for but hoping against. A portfolio manager at the company told the media that China would see a growth rate of -7 per cent this year. Such a steep fall of this mammoth economy was on its way to do more harm than its exponential rise the world felt threatened by. This slide, as the company puts it, is at a 'pace unseen since 1999'. Experts are suddenly concerned about China's 'limited' growth potential. The problem is being attributed to 'credit boom' and excessive investment boom, dangerously typical of a bubble. For you and....

Bitter after-taste of a heavy lunch

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Tum Mujhe Kashmir do Main Tumhe Saeed Dunga...IF this is what Bashir and company had in mind while landing in Delhi, someone in Islamabad has clearly handed them the wrong script. India was prepared for him to say 'Kashmir' before "Hello" as every Pakistani delegate or leader but not quite for the "thank you" message that came by the evening. Salman Bashir's rather late in the day tough diplomatic posturing by engaging in some undiplomatic rhetoric including a not-so-veiled warning to India (to not lecture Pakistan) after the 1 and-a-half hour long talks with Nirupama Rao can have only two origins. Either the diplomatic decibel of New Delhi's message was so loud and strong that the Pak Foreign Secretary was deafened & at loss of words inside the meeting room in Hyderabad House and needed the safe confines of Pak High Commission to breathe some air and do some tough....