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Yellow is the new Green and Orange — China cup will save us

(John Coulter, Irish Daily Star)

When will Wen buy Ireland?

It's clear the Emerald Isle must swop the Irish green for a slice of Chinese yellow paradise.

Premier Wen Jiabao cleverly used his short trip to Britain to unveil plans to boost the crisis-hit eurozone.

The sums are simple. China bails out the crumbling euro, and in turn pumps even more much-needed dosh into Ireland via Stormont and the Dail.

Comrade Wen may be one of the top cats in the Chinese Communist Party, but he holds the keys to rebuilding the staunchly capitalist Celtic Tiger.

My ultimate dream of the South rejoining the Commonwealth is a few years away, but Red China under Wen could easily – and immediately – pump billions of euros into this island.

Unionists and nationalists have to face a bitter reality. This island is in deep trouble financially.

The South's multi-billion euro bailout may not work; the North is having its budget brutally slashed by London.

While President Obama's visit to the Republic certainly gave Irish-American relations a massive shot in the arm, Ireland north and south might have to mark US Independence Day today by climbing into bed financially with the States' traditional Auld Foe, the Chinese.

Would the people of this island really care if it was British pounds, American dollars or Chinese-backed euros which dug Ireland out of the present economic crisis? Money talks wherever it comes from.

What would be so daft about Comrade Wen effectively buying Ireland? After all, the Chinese community is the largest ethnic minority on this island.

And Ireland, north and south, is in no position to mouth off to Comrade Wen about alleged human rights abuses in China given the history of the Troubles here.

For years, the South acted as a springboard for republican terrorists waging a bitter murder campaign in the North.

And Northern-based loyalist death squads were responsible for the biggest carnage of the Troubles – the no-warning Dublin and Monaghan bomb blitz in the 1970s which murdered more than 30 innocent people.

The Irish peace process could also be used as a platform to heal any bitterness between war veterans and Communist China.

Thousands of Irish soldiers fought for the Allies in the 1950s Korean and 1970s Vietnam wars when communist forces were heavily supplied by Red China, then under the brutal dictatorship of Chairman Mao.

China has also been rich spiritual pickings for the legions of Irish Christian missionaries who have helped keep the faith flourishing, especially during the very oppressive communist era.

With their famous dragons parading through streets, Chinese festivals in Ireland are becoming almost as big an attraction as Orange banners on 12 July and 30th anniversary Hunger Strike commemorations.

For generations Communist China was branded by Christian Ireland by the racist slur, The Yellow Peril.

Under Mao, numerous missionaries became modern-day martyrs.

If Comrade Wen gives the green light to unleash billions of Chinese-type euros into Ireland, a thriving Irish-Chinese lobby will rapidly overtake the Irish-American one as the globe's most influential political faction.

It will even surpass the clout of the world's top two – the Jewish American, and Arab American lobbies.

Irish villages, towns and cities host vast networks of Chinese takeaways and restaurants.

It would be mind-blowingly amazing if Irish families' gastronomic support for local Chinese food outlets was rewarded by Comrade Wen's 'Bail Out Ireland Bonanza'.

Forty years ago, the communist Yellow Peril killed, wounded and fought thousands of Irish troops in Vietnan.

In 2011, the Yellow Paradise could result in thousands of Irish families avoiding the nightmare of the poverty trap.

July 6, 2011
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This article appeared in the July 4, 2011 edition of the Irish Daily Star.

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