There`s no such thing as a Southeast Asian ‘strongman`
(WorldNews Asia)

CCP speeds up ‘Digital China` plan for 100% watch over daily life A few years ago, the professor of risk management Nassim Nicholas Taleb pondered the question of what`s the opposite of “fragile.” For many readers this may seem an easy answer – perhaps “strong” or “stable,” maybe “resilient.” Interestingly enough, Taleb opted for what was staring him in the face: “anti-fragile.” Rather than resilience, he argued, anti-fragility means that a system or object becomes less fragile when stressed and challenged. Inversely, anti-fragile systems become more fragile when they are not challenged or shocked. Clever, but not all together novel, reasoning. Friedrich Nietzsche once observed “that which...