TAIPEI – Struggling Taiwanese farmers and fishermen could soon sell their pineapples, squid and fish to the lucrative Chinese market again – and Taiwan’s opposition party Kuomintang (KMT) will be able to claim credit for it.
Days after KMT vice-chairman Andrew Hsia met top Chinese officials in Beijing on Feb 9 and 10, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) said Beijing would work with the island to allow the resumption of Taiwanese agricultural and fishery imports, banned sporadically since March 2021.
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