Licking up to Chinese is just wrong

All hail our new noncitizen overlords! Acceptable, That can be a tad far-Fetched but the plans for the new China trade hub outside Athlone put me in mind of something you'd see showing a pulp sci-Fi novel throughout the 1950s. Vast exhibition halls covering an area above the Liffey Valley and Blanchardstown shopping complexes combined and all topped off with a 'China Tower' which soars 90m taller than the advertising agencies in chicago Spire? Sure why not add in a launch facility for spacecraft and disguise everything as a volcano while you're at it. Call me cynical but the prospect of such an elaborate scheme ever Linkedin Is The #1 Professional Networking Site. This Linkedin Course Will Create Sales, Web Traffic And Success For Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Professionals And Job Seekers. Solid 6 Hours Of Video From A Well-known Linkedin Expert, Author & Speaker Linked Into Action being built are, I'd guarantee, About as likely as the Chinese government embracing democracy and adopting the proportional expression system while they're at it. There is definetly something about the midlands which inspires such flights of fancy. Can see the plans to set up a Las Vegas-Style amusement park in Tipperary? But unfortunately, Aside from the fantasy convention centre in Westmeath, The way this country seems set on sucking up to China is quite alarming. fine, So they're the coming world superpower and could probably close down America if they called in all cash they owe but nobody does obsequious subservience quite like Paddy and we're building up a really good grovel on this one. Inviting the nation's deputy leader here and failing to mention the unpleasantness regarding, ohio, Democracy, Human proper the law abuses, The backing of vile regimes in Africa and the Middle East and the lack of personal freedoms we neglect was one thing. However we had Enda Kenny swanning off there, Tugging his forelock and asking if it had e'er a chance of a few aul jobs boss. Disheartening doesn't come into it. If you were a conspiracy theorist scared of that the Chinese see pliable, Gullible Ireland as an ideal base to expand into Europe as part of their plan for global control. This week it also emerged that several Irish schools are to include classes in Mandarin as part of changeover year studies. All the best. with that, Seeing that most Irish teenagers can barely master reading, Writing and speaking basic English such has been the pernicious effects of text-Speak until recently decade. Not that they'd are limited to using Mandarin on text, Twitter or social networks mind, As the Chinese government won't permit such actually disruptive social media to operate in their country