The pineapple ban from China is just the latest escalation in tensions between the two nations.īeijing, which has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control, has carried out repeated air missions in the south-western corner of Taiwan's air defence identification zone in recent months. ( Reuters: Ben Blanchard) Tensions rising between Taiwan and China
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.įarmers sell pineapples at a stall by the road in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. "Have you bought your pineapples? We have!" it wrote. 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. "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. 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. Last year, more than 90 per cent of Taiwan's 46,000 tonnes of exported pineapples went to China. While Taiwan is best known internationally for its thriving tech companies, the sub-tropical island has a flourishing fruit industry. 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.
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