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.
Taoglas CEO Dermot O’Shea talks to The Currency about investigating how its parts were illicitly re-routed by bad actors to Russia, managing the fallout and moving on with its newest deal.
Government support encompasses the old, the new, goods and services, micro and macro. Nothing Trump elicits in China will change this., writes Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal.
China’s Amazon rival is joining the likes of Shein and Temu in setting up Irish outposts after it launched its new Joybuy brand in Europe. It plans to hire 30 people.
Government pours money into AI, electric cars and military power, while consumer confidence sags and job market grows bleak, writes Brian Spegele, The Wall Street Journal.
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