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  La paura di unirsi 22 dic 2025 | 20:17 Dall’Ucraina al Mercosur: come l’orientamento dell’opinione pubblica indirizza le grandi scelte politiche Bipartisanship? Quante volte sia il capo dello Stato sia molti commentatori hanno auspicato una convergenza fra maggioranza e opposizione sui temi cruciali della politica estera in nome degli interessi nazionali del Paese? In genere non se ne fa niente: non c’è differenza, per lo più, fra l’intensità dello scontro fra maggioranza e opposizione su questioni interne e questioni internazionali. Solo in qualche rarissima occasione non è così. Qualche volta, una convergenza, sia pure non esplicitata, non dichiarata pubblicamente, si realizza. Ottima cosa?  Non è detto, perché queste rare convergenze avvengono per lo più su questioni in cui la classe politica (maggioranza e opposizione) sceglie di assecondare atteggiamenti diffusi nel Paese ma disfunzionali, dettati da paure che lo paralizzano e impediscono ai decisori politici di persegu...
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  Exit the dragon: Hard times for Chinese tourism providers in Japan Chinese businesses struggle to adapt as their compatriots stay away Chinese restaurants can be seen in the Ameyoko shopping district in Tokyo on Dec. 16. Proprietors says business has dried up since Beijing warned tourists to stay away from Japan. (Photo by Yuki Kohara) MAKI SAGAMI December 23, 2025 12:00 JST TOKYO -- A "one dragon" system of Chinese businesses in Japan catering to visiting compatriots has become a significant victim of the travel warning issued by Beijing last month as relations with Tokyo deteriorated. China advised its citizens on Nov. 14 to  refrain from traveling to Japan , a move seen as retaliation for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Taiwan  remarks a week earlier , viewed by China interference in its domestic affairs. Visitors from China make up the largest group of tourists in Japan, and an industry has grown up known as  yitiao long  (one dragon), where thei...
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  As China’s Xi looks to Trump meeting, domestic economy weighs heavy By pulling China’s economic levers — like weaponizing the supply chains of  rare earth minerals  that China dominates — Xi was able to inflict enough pain to cause Trump to backtrack on his toughest measures. Heading into 2026 with two meetings with Trump on the schedule, Xi’s negotiating position might be weakened by widening imbalances in the world’s second largest economy: Despite its exporting might, China’s domestic slump has only grown worse in the last few months of this year. Still, Xi is likely to harden his approach in dealings with the Trump administration, analysts say. Follow  Trump’s second term “The U.S. literally tried its best to put economic pressure on China, and it failed,” said Victor Shih, an expert on China’s political economy at the University of California at San Diego. “This will reinforce Xi Jinping’s mindset: everything we’ve done up to this point has worked fabulously, ...
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  Navigated Menu Back Financial Times Financial Times Europe 23 Dec 2025 Buttons.Search Options Apollo curbs risk and stores cash to pre­pare for tur­bu­lence Chief emphas­ises defens­ive pos­ture Asset man­ager points to high prices ANTOINE GARA AND ERIC PLATT NEW YORK Addi­tional report­ing by Sujeet Indap in New York Settings Print Share Listen Apollo Global is build­ing up cash, cut­ting lever­age and selling out of ris­kier corners of debt mar­kets as top exec­ut­ives gird the firm for what they expect to be mar­ket tur­bu­lence. Chief exec­ut­ive Marc Rowan believes that the defens­ive pos­ture will pre­pare Apollo, which man­ages $908bn in assets, for more chal­len­ging credit and equity mar­kets and put it in a bet­ter pos­i­tion to invest dur­ing any tur­moil. Rowan privately told investors this month that his “num­ber one job” was to “have the best bal­ance sheet pos­sible”, to pos­i­tion Apollo to make money “when something bad hap­pens”. His com­ments came in private me...
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