China Connections To Ireland & Scotland
China, Ireland and Scotland — The Connection They Never Taught You THIS WAS NEVER RANDOM Two small nations at the western edge of Europe. The world's oldest civilisation at the other end. The connections run deeper, stranger and more deliberate than anyone has been allowed to notice. This is not a story about tourism partnerships or diplomatic handshakes. It is a story about an Irishman who controlled a quarter of the Chinese government's money. A Scottish bank whose logo is built on China's conqueror's flag. A Cork-born woman whose novel sustained Xi Jinping through the Cultural Revolution. Two Tibetan monks who fled China's invasion, walked over the Himalayas — most of their party dying — and built the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the Western world in rural Scotland, only for the co-founder to be murdered in Chengdu fifty years later. It runs through Celtic mummies found in Chinese deserts, the IRA trying to buy Chinese weapons, a Chinese...
