Both parties must apologize for pork import issue: KoBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe controversy over lifting the ban on US pork containing ractopamine is not only a food safety issue, but also a communication and management problem, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday. Ko, who is chairman of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), was addressing a party forum in Taipei. Ko said he recently saw a video clip on the Internet of a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker asking Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) to apologize for his past opposition to imports of US pork and beef, seeing that he had now reversed course. Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je speaks at a Taiwan People’s Party forum in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei TimesKo cited Su as asking the lawmaker if he would also apologize, as the KMT had supported such a policy in 2012.

Source: Taipei Times October 17, 2020 15:56 UTC