2026-01-13
23 分钟The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
In Japan, it's become politically expedient to do a little bit of foreigner bashing.
But perhaps more than most countries, Japan needs its gaijin.
Our correspondent unpicks the rhetoric from what really matters for the country.
And every Saturday morning across Britain,
thousands upon thousands of people get up early and head to the park for a run,
appropriately called park run.
We look into how one small get-together turned into a national public health success story.
First up, though.
At daybreak in Paris this morning, a serious traffic jam started to develop.
350 or so tractors rumbling toward the Arc de Triomphe.
The traffic jam is intentional, and it isn't the first.
On Monday, producers and tractors gummed up Lugo in Spain.
On Sunday, it was Tarragona.
The roots of this wheeled protest go back, way back, to the last millennium, in fact.
In 1999, talks first began on a trade deal between Mercasur,
a block of South American countries, and the European Union.
Long story short, they didn't get anywhere for a really long time.