China has banned the import of more than 100 food and agricultural products from Taiwan at a time of tension over the possible arrival in Taipei of the leader of the US House of Representatives.
In the last few hours, the Chinese Customs Administration has published on its website a list of Taiwanese companies whose products are immediately banned and states, without further details, that these companies violated “important regulations”.
This would be China’s first direct reaction to the possibility, raised by US and Taiwanese media, that Nancy Pelosi lands in Taipei tonight, on an unannounced visit, as part of a tour of Asia, about which Beijing has already warned. who will it be respond forcefully.
Nancy Pelosi ignores China’s warnings and is even expected to visit Taiwan this week. Beijing threatens: “The Army will not sit idly by”
According to the Taiwanese newspaper UDN, the measure “cause serious damage to the food, agriculture and fishing industriess” in the territory, which had already been the subject of a commercial blow by Beijing last year, when it prohibited the export of pineapples and other crops due to an alleged pest risk.
Pelosi announced that she would visit Taiwan last April, but canceled the trip shortly after she tested positive for COVID-19. Several US Congressional delegations have visited Taipei in recent months.
China claims sovereignty over the island and has considered Taiwan a rogue province since the Kuomintang nationalists withdrew there in 1949 after losing the civil war against the communists.
China does not want Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan and threatens “firm and resolute measures” if the trip materializes
Taiwan, with which the United States has no official relations, is one of the main sources of conflict between China and the United States, mainly because Washington is the main source of conflict between China and the United States. Taipei arms supplier and it would be its greatest military ally in case of war with the Asian giant.
Tensions have risen across the Taiwan Strait over the past year, with Chinese aircraft increasingly incursions into Taiwan’s self-defined aerial identification zone, and President Tsai Ing-wen admitting the United States has a military presence on the island. , which Beijing described. as a “provocation”.
The passage of US military ships through the Taiwan Strait in recent months has also been repeatedly condemned by Beijing.
Source: Observadora
