BEIJING - The world-rattling debt limit fight in Washington finally ground out a truce Tuesday, just in time to pull the United States back from the brink of a possibly earth-shaking default.
The months-long tug of war between Democrats and Republicans, however, failed to defuse Washington's debt bomb for good, only delaying an immediate detonation by making the fuse an inch longer.
Meanwhile, the madcap farce of brinkmanship has disclosed yet another ticking bomb in the heartland of the sole superpower in the world - the crippling tendency to politicize the economics while trivializing the politics.
Time bombs still ticking in Washington after deal
[em41]US avoids default but fails to dispel economy fears