The Irish Times yesterday carried a page advertisement from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
The author is He Xiangdong, who is the current Ambassador of China to Ireland.
The ad begins explaining how the Communist Party of China was established 100 years ago this month.
The ambassador points out how China, like Ireland, remaind poor and backward and was struggling against foreign oppression and exploitation.
He goes on to say that over the last 100 years the Chinese Communist Party have been rallying the Chinese people, leading them in revolution and nation-building, and putting an end to semi-colonial, semi-feudal society of the old China.
Today, he tells the reader, that China is the world’s second largest economy, its largest manufacturing country, and the largest commodity trading nation.
The ambassador believes this is a good time to strengthen further China Ireland cooperation.
Meanwhile at celebrations in Tiananmen Square yesterday Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged that China would not accept “sanctimonious preaching” by others, and it would not be “bullied, oppressed, or subjugated”. Anyone who tries “will find them on a collision course with a steel wall forged by 1.4 billion people.”
There are always two sides to stories.
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