News Forum - China punishes Taiwan farmers for Pelosi visit

[Thaiger]

Taiwan is still feeling the fallout from the visit of US politician Nancy Pelosi in August. China’s response to Taiwan accepting the US House of Representatives Speaker was to punish the country with a series of economic measures such as blocking the imports of more than 2,000 different Taiwanese foodstuffs, including pomelos. Understandably, Taiwan’s farmers are suffering from the ban. Fruit farmer Wu Cheng-wan initially thought the weather was the only thing he had to worry about ahead of the harvest but China’s decision has crippled his industry. “This year I was very cautious. I was especially afraid because the […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

Most of the time politicians forget to remember Newton's 3rd Law of Motion....

[Giltee]

The answer is there for Taiwan, develop markets elsewhere. Don’t trade with China especially in semi-conductors. There’s plenty of demand elsewhere. They attempted to bully Aussie with coal bans etc and it backfired on them. Aussie stood up to the bullies and diversified finding other customers.