{"id":195156,"date":"2025-11-23T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195156\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T00:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:10:20","slug":"ireland-business-chamber-welcomes-chinese-investment-despite-us-eu-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195156\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland business chamber welcomes Chinese investment despite US, EU pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese investment is still being actively welcomed in Ireland, the head of a major business organisation said, even as the wider European Union adopts a more cautious attitude and Dublin walks a tightrope to maintain ties with both the US and China amid a wide-ranging rivalry between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe\u2019re firmly open for business within the EU rules, that is an unambiguous position,\u201d Mary Rose Burke, CEO of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, told the Post in an interview last week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhen we already have successful investors into Ireland, when we have Irish businesses investing in China, I don\u2019t see anything that will completely upend that or stop it from being attractive for businesses to evaluate opportunities both ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese investment in Ireland has risen sharply in recent years, even as Beijing\u2019s trade relations with both the EU and the United States have worsened.<\/p>\n<p>Direct <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3298442\/wang-yi-travels-dublin-china-shores-its-relationship-ireland?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese investment in Ireland<\/a> totalled US$380 million in 2023, up 265 per cent year on year, and then surged another 172 per cent last year to just under US$1.04 billion, according to data compiled by Beijing\u2019s commerce ministry and other state agencies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Burke said IDA Ireland, an autonomous statutory body that promotes foreign direct investment, had around 40 Chinese client companies that were investing across the Irish economy, including pillar industries such as technology and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese investment is still being actively welcomed in Ireland, the head of a major 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