Chinese VP Visit

Gallee

What a wonderful coup for Co. Clare to has the Chinese VP spend 2 days here in the County. I presume he and the entourage are staying in Dromoland Castle? It was great for Bunratty, the Farm in Sixmilebridge and the Cliffs to receive all this good press. Hopefully it pays dividends.

Lady Chatterton

I hope that Eamon Gilmore discusses human right issues with the Vice President during his visit. It is a great opportunity for us to promote tourism and industry too, hopefully, the visit will be positive for our county and country.

Palmach

Gallee wrote: »

What a wonderful coup for Co. Clare to has the Chinese VP spend 2 days here in the County. I presume he and the entourage are staying in Dromoland Castle? It was great for Bunratty, the Farm in Sixmilebridge and the Cliffs to receive all this good press. Hopefully it pays dividends.

Great for Clare but I hope as the other poster said human rights are brought up.

conZ

I presume he'll be skipping The *NEW* Bodies Exhibition while in Dublin.

hogflem

Lets not forget the fact that we ourselves were in a similar position to the Tibetans not that long ago,one mans Britain is another mans China!!!How many people went along to meet the Dalai Lama last year and felt disgusted when they heard about the way the Chinese treated his people,the money might be nice,but not if it drips with blood!!!

Balagan

But surely if China's long-standing and ongoing abysmal human rights record bothered us we would not have been rolling out the red carpet? At this point, we would sell our soul to the devil openly and with the tiniest whisper about human rights and that would be perfectly fine with the vast majority in the country and the government knows that well.

CptSternn

China's human rights record is no worse than the shower we currently are leasing Shannon airport to so they can rendition people into secret prisons around the world to be tortured.

Our government has no morals. This has been obvious for sometime now. The all mighty dollar/yuan is the only they they pray to these days, and the only thing they care about.

The Holy trinity has been replaced with the troika

In the name of the EU, IMF, and ECB. Amen.

Palmach

CptSternn wrote: »

China's human rights record is no worse than the shower we currently are leasing Shannon airport to so they can rendition people into secret prisons around the world to be tortured.
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yermanoffthetv

Palmach wrote: »

Snip.

To be honest hes got a point. The US has done plenty of questionable things over the last decade or so yet we naver raised issues of guantanamo/torture/execution ect when obama visited. We are guilty of being hippocrates if nothing more. Tbh I dont think China gives a flying fcuk what we say anyway, Id rather they focused on getting some Chinese investment over here.

Clareman

If you have a problem with a post, REPORT IT, don't insult on thread.

Thread cleaned up

Palmach

yermanoffthetv wrote: »

To be honest hes got a point. The US has done plenty of questionable things over the last decade or so yet we naver raised issues of guantanamo/torture/execution ect when obama visited. We are guilty of being hippocrates if nothing more. Tbh I dont think China gives a flying fcuk what we say anyway, Id rather they focused on getting some Chinese investment over here.

He doesn't have a point when he makes the hysterical and over the top point of equating the US human rights record with China. It is so ludicrous as to be beyond parody of loony leftism.

Clareman

Reminder everyone that this is the CLARE forum, if you wish to discuss political issues please find a suitable forum, I don't want to have to moderate users debating different countries human rights histories, thanks.

yermanoffthetv

Palmach wrote: »

He doesn't have a point when he makes the hysterical and over the top point of equating the US human rights record with China. It is so ludicrous as to be beyond parody of loony leftism.

Yea not equal but my point stands, you cant ignore US human rights abuses and condem China even if they are on a different scale.torture is torture weather its a several hundred or several thousand. Point also has to be made that Chinas is improving its human rights record, we should be encouraging them to continue to do so and nothing more.

Anyways id love to see how that farm visit went down in sixmile bridge. Visiting farms seems to be a big thing with communist leaders

finbarrk

Gallee wrote: »

What a wonderful coup for Co. Clare to has the Chinese VP spend 2 days here in the County. I presume he and the entourage are staying in Dromoland Castle? It was great for Bunratty, the Farm in Sixmilebridge and the Cliffs to receive all this good press. Hopefully it pays dividends.

I met a few of them in the Clare Inn on Friday night. Great to meet them, it can only be good for the county.

Melion

finbarrk wrote: »

I met a few of them in the Clare Inn on Friday night. Great to meet them, it can only be good for the county.

They only landed in SNN on Saturday afternoon

CptSternn

*Fighting urge to make witty comment about confusing Asian people*

MyKeyG

Does anyone else find the censorship on a thread regarding china slightly ironic? (MyKeyG awaits censor)

Palmach

MyKeyG wrote: »

Does anyone else find the censorship on a thread regarding china slightly ironic? (MyKeyG awaits censor)

Slightly?!?!?

idayang

Melion wrote: »

They only landed in SNN on Saturday afternoon

But some Chinese officials may came there beforehand to do some preparing job;)

hogflem

Or the guys from china dine went out for a few beers.:D

finbarrk

Melion wrote: »

They only landed in SNN on Saturday afternoon

Maybe the Vice President only arrived on Saturday? There was a big gang of them in the Clare Inn on Friday night.

opinionated3

Good to see at least two planes landed at Shannon on Saturday.....

Tora Bora

Only thing which has not yet been revealed is how much of the county, and country for that matter, that guy bought up when he was here:eek:

CptSternn

Tora Bora wrote: »

Only thing which has not yet been revealed is how much of the county, and country for that matter, that guy bought up when he was here:eek:

Bought? All they need to do is provide a tent at the Galway Races and our government will turn over whatever they ask for. Thats what Shell did to get 30 billion in our natural resources.

Evil_Clown

Some memonto's of his trip to the banner, maybe he can put these up on his facebook or send to his family:D

idayang

good photos. however he can't put them on facebook because facebook is banned in China.;P

Evil_Clown wrote: »

Some memonto's of his trip to the banner, maybe he can put these up on his facebook or send to his family:D

CptSternn

idayang wrote: »

good photos. however he can't put them on facebook because facebook is banned in China.;P

Don't laugh, our government just passed it's own version of SOPA and signed ACTA, meaning we soon will have our own 'Great Firewall' in which our government will be using to block websites it deems inappropriate for whatever reason.

User Friendly

http://www.irishexaminer.com/news/polish-man-found-hanged-at-cliffs-minutes-before-visit-184474.html

Does anyone know if this made RTE radio or tv news bulletins?

Sad day for this man,his family and friends:(



sorry,just saw this tragedy mentioned on the other thread...