date:Jun 17, 2014
isits to China, and a significant number of Chinese visits going back to Ireland, he added.
In the ambassador's view, the two countries' close political relations are rooted in their similar historical background and development process.
Ireland had a colonial history... That is an important mental or psychological background dimension to our relations with China, he said. We can understand perhaps more easily the history that your people had gone through. And I think China understands Irish p