How Effective Is Ireland's "Soft Power"?
9 January - 20 mins
Podcast Series
Newstalk Daily
Micheál Martin has just finished a four day official visit to China. On Monday he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing and by all accounts the trip has been a glowing success.It’s been an eventful week geopolitically with Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro making most of the headlines.
But quietly beavering away in the background was Micheál Martin as he pressed the flesh in Beijing.
The trip came off the back of an internal study by the Department of Foreign Affairs into the Government’s diplomatic soft power and included a notable non-answer to a question on the events in Venezuela from the Taoiseach.
So just how much is achieved by these visits? To what degree is the off ca...
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