The KMT, food and trade agreementsThe main opposition party has consistently used food and trade to sour Taiwan’s relations with the US and Japan in favor of ChinaBy Michael Turton / Contributing reporterIn September last year the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) launched its campaign for a public referendum to ban the importation of pork products containing ractopamine. The KMT was ostensibly responding to President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) decision to open Taiwan’s markets to US pork products containing ractopamine. Legislators from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in November last year dump pig guts on the floor of the legislature. IMPORTS FROM FUKUSHIMAChinese Nationalist Party (KMT) then-chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu, front third right, attends a demonstration along Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard in December 2016 against the proposed lifting of a ban on food imports from five Japanese prefectures. Photo: CNAThis is not the first time that the KMT has drummed up a campaign against food imports in the midst of trade talks.

Source: Taipei Times March 07, 2021 15:56 UTC