{"id":77199,"date":"2026-04-30T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/30\/taiwan-accuses-china-of-vegetable-laundering-via-vietnam"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:25:51","slug":"taiwan-accuses-china-of-vegetable-laundering-via-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77199","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan accuses China of vegetable laundering via Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese officials have accused firms in China of attempting to evade import  restrictions by rerouting vegetables through neighbouring Vietnam<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taipei has accused China of smuggling vegetables into Taiwan via Vietnam in a bid to evade import restrictions, with officials vowing to crack down on a practice they say amounts to \u201corigin washing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan, which bans the importation of more than 1,000 Chinese agricultural and fishery products, said firms in China were evading restrictions by rerouting vegetables like Napa cabbage and shiitake mushrooms through neighbouring Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/30\/taiwan-accuses-china-of-vegetable-laundering-via-vietnam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese officials have accused firms in China of attempting to evade import  restrictions by rerouting vegetables through neighbouring VietnamTaipei has accused China of smuggling vegetables into Taiwan via Vietnam in a bid to evade import restrictio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"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":[50,74,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-taiwan","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77199","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\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77199\/revisions\/77200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}