Chinese Premier Li Qiang held talks with Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin on Wednesday as part of a trip that highlighted the two nations’ close trade and investment ties — and their potential vulnerability to growing geopolitical tensions.
Ireland’s chip and other exports to China and its role as an increasingly important destination for Chinese investment have made the country a poster child for the benefits of friendly relations with Beijing.
But exports fell last year and the tight economic ties have put Dublin in the crossfire of US efforts to control technology flows to China and the EU’s policy of “de-risking” trade with the world’s second-largest economy.
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