{"id":33268,"date":"2021-06-19T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/18\/kiwi-wars-the-golden-fruit-fuelling-a-feud-between-new-zealand-and-china"},"modified":"2021-06-19T05:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:00:34","slug":"kiwi-wars-the-golden-fruit-fuelling-a-feud-between-new-zealand-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33268","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi wars: the golden fruit fuelling a feud between New Zealand and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One firm\u2019s attempt to regain control of illegal cultivation shows Wellington\u2019s lack of leverage over its largest trade partner<\/p>\n<p>It is the story of a global superpower, a smuggling operation, pestilence and a small hairy fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Ubiquitous on supermarket shelves and in lunchboxes, the humble kiwi is New Zealand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/BU2005\/S00167\/new-zealand-horticulture-exports-grow-to-62-billion.htm\">most valuable horticultural <\/a>export. Recent battles for control of the fruit, however, have shone a light on tensions in New Zealand\u2019s relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/18\/kiwi-wars-the-golden-fruit-fuelling-a-feud-between-new-zealand-and-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One firm\u2019s attempt to regain control of illegal cultivation shows Wellington\u2019s lack of leverage over its largest trade partnerIt is the story of a global superpower, a smuggling operation, pestilence and a small hairy fruit.Ubiquitous on supermarket sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[737,41,6,50,65,653,311,383,1948,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-environment","category-farming","category-food","category-food-drink-industry","category-fruit","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33269,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33268\/revisions\/33269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}