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Squid, pineapples and fish: KMT polishes its branding ahead of 2024 presidential race

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China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said that Beijing would work with the island to allow the resumption of Taiwanese agricultural and fishery imports.

China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said that Beijing would work with the island to allow the resumption of Taiwanese agricultural and fishery imports.

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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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