What better time to review the apparently successful bit of financial diplomacy by which China is slowly freeing up the yuan than at an IMF meeting?

FORBES: Where the Action Is

As Afghanistan has shown, it can (and often should) be unilateralist in military matters, but it needs a more co-operative, even consensual approach for other purposes, including diplomacy, intelligence-gathering, financial tracking and above all in the battle for hearts, minds and ideas.

ECONOMIST: Fighting terrorism