JAMIE CARR: Foschini Group’s gutsy move has no Jet lag
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23 July 2020 - 05:00
It is not uncommon for pundits to roll out the hoary old trope that in Chinese, the word for crisis means both danger and opportunity.
US president John F Kennedy was the most prominent subscriber to this theory, using it in a speech in 1959, and while it is interesting as a concept, it suffers a little for being entirely untrue, which might be worth remembering as a symbol of the mutual incomprehension on show as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping square up like a couple of heavyweights prior to a Vegas slugfest...
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