Is Asia a bouncy, bouncy Tigger? Or, like the proverbial dead cat, are Asian tigers on a merely temporary upward trajectory? Certainly, Asia's tigers and, if you will bear with the zoological references, its canaries, too, have done better recently.
Cinderella and the Global Financial Meltdown is not the sort of story you want to tell your children at bedtime.
China poses the biggest challenge to India's IT outsourcing industry, which is expected to grow by an average 15 per cent over the next two years, according to the chief executive of India's biggest business processing outsourcer.
A club of the world's leading nations is starting to look hollow without China - the fourth-largest economy in dollar terms, according to the World Bank