Domestic sales have plunged, but the state-supported sector’s needed shakeout hasn’t begun; ‘so many competitors’, write Stephen Wilmot and Katrina Northrop, The Wall Street Journal.
Two years ago, nine brands from China were at the event. This time, there were about 20, write Stephen Wilmot and Ryan Felton, The Wall Street Journal.
The Chinese leader is presiding over a surge in indebtedness that is strangling the economy and spilling overseas, writes Brian Spegele, The Wall Street Journal.
GD Helicopter Finance, based in Dublin and owned by China’s GDAT, tried to buy a Belgian helicopter operator but a government minister said the deal was risky for national security.
Sums reaching nearly nine figures are being lobbed in claims and counterclaims between the solar company and a Chinese engineering firm over solar projects in the UK.
Geely, one of the world's largest car manufacturers, may already be familiar with Irish roads through its ownership of Volvo, Lotus, and Polestar. But it is now primed to launch its own models into Ireland.
Xi confidant leads fevered effort for domestic alternatives to win AI race; Chinese AI companies warned that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor, write Josh Chin and Raffaele Huang, The Wall Street Journal.
Western biotechs get a new playbook with tighter controls to stay ahead of an ultra-efficient pharmaceutical pipeline overseas, writes Xavier Martinez, The Wall Street Journal.
Guotai Haitong Securities was formed last year but the long-running business model of Haitong’s Irish subsidiary “is no longer the group’s strategy for operations in Ireland”.
The EU’s new foreign-investor screening rules have largely been centred on managing Chinese investment in Europe’s critical sectors but China is a smaller player in the Irish context.
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