Tag: Black Swan’ and ‘Grey Rhino’

By Haider Abbas Rarely the China president Xi Jinping calls for explicit terms, as China being one of the oldest civilisations of the world, finds comfortable with symbolic terms alone! It was one year before COVID-19 pandemic broke, on which China and US have sparred each other, when on Jan 21, 2019, Reuters  did report Xi Jinping alerting China to guard against ‘black-swan’ risks while fending off ‘grey-rhino’. Corona Virus was unknown then,  as after all it was one year prior to its outbreak, but the substantial meaning that symbol held...