Inside Politics: Tánaiste likely to face questions over BSE case on China visit; Gaza remains focus of politicians at home
Tánaiste Micheál Martin meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Mr Martin has described as disappointing the suspension of Irish beef exports to China following the discovery of an atypical case of BSE. Photograph: Phil Behan/DFA, for a day at least, when beef exports to China were suspended after a case of “atypical” BSE was recorded in Ireland.
“When you expel an ambassador, you disempower yourself,” Varadkar replied to Opposition deputies. “You cut off links, you cannot talk anymore and you have to rebuild those links. I can understand it as an emotional reaction but it is not a common-sense approach in my view, and it is not the way things get done in international affairs.”
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