{"id":265304,"date":"2026-01-03T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/265304\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:54:10","slug":"taoiseach-micheal-martin-to-visit-china-as-beijing-shores-up-eu-ties-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/265304\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin to visit China as Beijing shores up EU ties \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Taoiseach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\/\">Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> will visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/china\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/china\/\">China<\/a> from \u200dSunday, the Asian nation\u2019s foreign ministry said, the \u200dfirst such trip by an Irish Taoiseach since 2012 as Beijing shores up \u200cties with individual members of the European Union \u2060bloc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On his trip that runs \u200cuntil \u200bThursday, \u200dMr Martin will meet president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/xi-jinping\/\">Xi Jinping<\/a> and premier Li Qiang in Beijing among senior \u2060officials before heading to the \u2060commercial hub of Shanghai, the \u2060ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cChina is willing to \u200dtake this visit as an opportunity to enhance political mutual trust and expand mutually beneficial cooperation with Ireland,\u201d it added in Saturday\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The visit \u200coverlaps with one \u200cby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/south-korea\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/south-korea\/\">South Korean<\/a> president Lee Jae Myung, who is expected \u200cto discuss cooperation in artificial intelligence and \u2060cutting-edge tech with Mr Xi. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin will visit China from \u200dSunday, the Asian nation\u2019s foreign ministry said, the \u200dfirst such trip&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,381,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5765,5,2428,7,8,3997],"class_list":{"0":"post-265304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-micheal-martin","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-south-korea","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115831744892026171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}