{"id":39391,"date":"2021-03-25T05:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=39391"},"modified":"2021-03-25T05:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:15:46","slug":"china-taiwan-clash-kicked-off-the-freedom-pineapple-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/china-taiwan-clash-kicked-off-the-freedom-pineapple-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Taiwan clash kicked off the Freedom Pineapple campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ties between China and Taiwan, which have historically been rocky over issues such as sovereignty, foreign relations and military build-up, are now being tested by an unusual subject \u2013 pineapples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 1, China banned the import of pineapples from Taiwan, alleging there was a risk of \u201charmful creatures\u201d that could threaten its own agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, an angry Taiwan has refuted China\u2019s claims of pests being found in imported pineapples, and has gone on to insist that the move is aimed at increasing political pressure on Taiwan, which China considers its own province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following this, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen kicked off a \u201cpineapple challenge\u201d on social media to attract more Taiwanese consumers to buy the fruit and counter China\u2019s move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister also urged \u201clike-minded friends around the globe to stand with #Taiwan &amp; rally behind the #FreedomPineapple\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ties between China and Taiwan, which have historically been rocky over issues such as sovereignty, foreign relations and military build-up, are now being tested by an unusual subject \u2013 pineapples. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 On March 1, China banned the import of pineapples from Taiwan, alleging there was a risk of \u201charmful creatures\u201d that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":39392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-39391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2021","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39393,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39391\/revisions\/39393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39391"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=39391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}