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China and Taiwan are engaged in a verbal fight about pineapples.
Starting this week, China has banned the import of the fruit from Taiwan. Chinese customs officials say that’s because several kinds of mealy bugs were found in pineapple shipments from Taiwan between March and May of last year.
Taiwan’s government says there have been no insect issues since tougher quality standards were introduced in October – suggesting that the real reason for the ban is something else. Taiwan’s Central News Agency quotes a tweet from President Tsai Ing-Wen saying “unfair Chinese trade practices are now targeting Taiwanese pineapples.”