Recently, in Taiwan, top leaders and politicians are said to be promoting pineapples.



Citizens are also sharing recipes or ordering pineapples. What's wrong with them?



President Chai Ing-Won took the lead in trying to eat a lot of pineapples.



Other politicians are also promoting pineapples in different ways.



In particular, the head of the local government in Pingtung County, the largest pineapple producer, has a competition for cutting pineapples with a machine, while promoting pineapples wherever they go.



[Pan Meng An/Taiwan Pingtung site (local municipality): Taiwanese pineapple, it's delicious.

Taiwanese pineapple is not sour.

Taiwanese pineapple is very sweet.

It's very sweet.] Even



ordinary citizens are developing various dishes and sharing them on social media.



[Citizens living in Chai Peishan/Kaohsiung, Taiwan: At a cafe, people get a pineapple when they buy a drink.

Some restaurants allow customers to bring pineapples for free.]



Famous beef noodles shops have launched pineapple beef noodles, and pineapple goods are also available.



The reason Taiwan is so serious about pineapples is because of China.



At the end of last month, China announced a suspension of imports, claiming that harmful organisms came from Taiwanese pineapple.



Taiwan is angry about China's economic retaliation.



This is because the southern part of Taiwan, a major pineapple producing area, is the political home of the ruling party in Taiwan.



[Kang Joon-young/Director of the Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: There are many people in the central and southern regions who mainly support the current ruling party, the Minjin Party.

In the end, it was calculated that China would inflict some kind of damage on the supporters of the Democratic Party.] Under



these suspicions, Taiwanese citizens are joining the Pineapple War with more unity.



[Chifeishan/Taiwan Kaohsiung Resident Citizens: Everyone worked hard to overcome this crisis.

China's actions have made Taiwanese citizens more dislike of China.] What was the



outcome?



In four days, the reservation volume exceeded 40,000 tons, exceeding the amount exported to China last year.



It seems to end with Taiwan's victory, but as China accounts for more than 90% of Taiwan's total pineapple exports, this pineapple war is unlikely to end easily.



▶ The secret of Taiwan's victory in the pineapple war with China in 4 days