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How worried should we all be about Chinese inflation?

Chinese inflation is now at its highest in 11 years, and there seems little prospect of it falling much in the next couple of months. This has set alarm bells ringing in countries that have grown accustomed to cheap Chinese imports helping to keep a lid on inflation. But we think these worries are overdone.

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