If India banned Chinese restaurants...

...China will flood direct flights to India with wholesale takeaways of the authentic stuff; Indian businessmen will fight for the commission and the consumers for the cuisine

Xi Jinping is hurt. Narendra Modi ignored his birthday. The Son of Heaven had taken great trouble arranging a surprise party on June 15 on those bleak heights where not a blade of grass grows although tanks roll, artillery crackles and shells explode. But nary a tributary tweet from Modi. Terrified of the Himalayan fracas, he might have been crouching in a bunker like Donald Trump, for all anyone knew.

His silence was especially surprising because, like all Indians, Modi loves bragging about foreign VIPs. “Barrack” and “Bibi” trip off his tongue. But perhaps the Middle Kingdom’s president-for-life and supreme commander