China says Taiwan pineapple ban not about politics as war of words escalates

Stitcher "The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities have deliberately misrepresented and maliciously interpreted technical issues, taking the opportunity to attack and discredit the mainland," it said, referring to Taiwan's ruling party. The DPP has neither the will nor the ability to solve practical problems, and they can only evade their own responsibility by "slandering the mainland", it added. While Taiwan is best known internationally for exporting semiconductors, the sub-tropical island has a thriving fruit industry developed when it was a Japanese colony, and last year more than 90% of its exported pineapples went to China. Politicians have rallied behind pineapple…