U.S., Canada hail Taiwan's 'freedom pineapples' after Chinese ban

[The_King]

TAIPEI (Reuters) - The de facto U.S. and Canadian embassies in Taiwan on Tuesday praised the quality of pineapples grown on the island, depicting photographs of their top diplomats in Taipei with the fruit after an import ban by China.

China last week stopped the import of Taiwanese pineapples, citing "harmful creatures" it said could come with the fruit.

Infuriated Taiwanese authorities called the ban a political move to further pressure the island, a charge that China denied.

 

While neither the United States nor Canada, like most countries, have formal diplomatic ties with the Chinese-claimed island, both have their own disputes with Beijing over human rights, trade and other issues.

While Taiwan is best known internationally for its thriving tech companies, the sub-tropical island has a flourishing fruit industry. Last year, more than 90% of its exported pineapples went to China.

Referencing a tweet by Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu for people around the world to "rally behind the #FreedomPineapple", the Canadian Trade Office, on Taipei's Facebook page, used the same hashtag on a picture of its chief, Jordan Reeves, posing with colleagues around a pineapple pizza.

"We in the Canadian Office like pineapple pizza, especially pineapples from Taiwan!" it wrote, adding that the idea to put pineapple on a pizza was invented by a Canadian in 1962.

The American Institute in Taiwan, under the hashtags #realfriendsrealprogress and #pineapplesolidarity, posted Facebook pictures of pineapples on their Taipei premises, including of its director Brent Christensen with three on his desk.

"Have you bought your pineapples? We have!" it wrote.

Local politicians have, meanwhile, posted pictures of themselves in fields with farmers and tucking into the fruit on their social media pages, encouraging domestic consumers as well as other countries to pick up the slack left by China.

 

 

[The_King]

Hope got cheap $1 pineapple in SG soon

[socrates469bc]

tiongland cannot ban tsmc or ban american soybeans so ban pineapples.

 

Emperor Xi macam like 5 yr old bully, cannot bully big boys, so go bully helpless pineapple farmers.

 

sibei throw face.

 

 

[The_King]

5 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

tiongland cannot ban tsmc or ban american soybeans so ban pineapples.

 

Emperor Xi macam like 5 yr old bully, cannot bully big boys, so go bully helpless pineapple farmers.

 

sibei throw face.

 

 

ban honey adn bear please

 

 

he eat up  all the honey and buy all the bear

[Bigbird]

Anything that is good that goes into CUTN, will be ptential chop carrot for Sinkies!

[socrates469bc]

11 hours ago, The_King said:

Hope got cheap $1 pineapple in SG soon

 

9 hours ago, Bigbird said:

Anything that is good that goes into CUTN, will be ptential chop carrot for Sinkies!

 

price competitiveness due to logistic costing doesnt allow taiwan pineapples to enter sgp market.

 

secondly, optimal harvesting of pineapple is when the fruit is 75% ripened, giving little time for transportation for faraway markets.

 

 

 

[meng.huat]

if sinkies go buy tw pineapples, i wonder HK custom want to confiscate what items next....

[Huat Zai]

[The_King]

49 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

 

 

price competitiveness due to logistic costing doesnt allow taiwan pineapples to enter sgp market.

 

secondly, optimal harvesting of pineapple is when the fruit is 75% ripened, giving little time for transportation for faraway markets.

 

 

 

 

 

frozen also can, as long as it cheap

[meng.huat]

taiwan farmers should learn from Mr Lee, their address attached for ease of contact

 

https://leepineapple.com/

 

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[Bigbird]

 

Just Import Taiwan Mei Mei, is good for me!