Xi seeks to change world order giving Ireland a decision to make on US-China competition

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Chinese President Xi Jinping is seeking to change the established economic world order. Some commentators believe Ireland has become a site for US-China competition and that the State needs to manage this carefully. Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Consumers struggle to distinguish between genuine environmental claims made in advertisements and “greenwashed” ones that give a misleading impression of the climate-friendly credentials of a product or business, according a new study by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Trinity College Dublin. Laura Slattery reports. Joseph Brennan, the founder of the Irish family-run Brennans Bread, has died aged 82 in Dublin....