Time’s not ripe for Taiwanese bananas

July 20, 2011 | OPPORTUNITY

TAIPEI – For more than half a decade, China has been munching southern Taiwan’s bananas and other fruit largely for political consideration – to win the hearts and souls of Taiwanese farmers who are traditionally more supportive of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). But the procurement of fruit, once seen as a particularly crafty item in Beijing’s strategy toolbox, failed …
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