{"id":34450,"date":"2026-01-04T03:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34450"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:04:35","slug":"china-says-irish-pm-to-visit-beijing-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34450","title":{"rendered":"China says Irish PM to visit Beijing, Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Irish prime minister Micheal Martin will visit China on the invitation of counterpart Li Qiang from Sunday to Thursday, Beijing&#8217;s foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Martin will go to Beijing and the economic powerhouse of Shanghai, meeting with Li as well as President Xi Jinping, China&#8217;s foreign ministry said in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Martin&#8217;s visit to China would be the first by an Irish taoiseach since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In recent years, the China-Ireland strategic partnership for mutually beneficial cooperation has enjoyed robust development,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our two sides have always treated each other with mutual respect and equality&#8230; Through the upcoming visit, China stands ready to work with Ireland to enhance political mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The foreign ministry also said it hoped the upcoming visit would promote &#8220;sound and steady advancement of China-EU relations&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish prime minister Micheal Martin will visit China on the invitation of counterpart Li Qiang from Sunday to Thursday, Beijing&#8217;s foreign ministry said. Martin will go to Beijing and the economic powerhouse of Shanghai, meeting with Li as well as President Xi Jinping, China&#8217;s foreign ministry said in a statement Saturday. Martin&#8217;s visit to China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}