{"id":1062,"date":"2010-04-05T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomadscatalans.net\/fetataiwan\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2010-04-05T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:04:56","slug":"la-vedella-un-tema-destat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nomadscatalans.net\/fetataiwan\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"La vedella, un tema d’estatBeef, a national debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tot caminant per Taipei \u00e9s f\u00e0cil topar-se amb restaurants que tenen aquest poster:<\/p>\n

\"IMAG0226\"<\/p>\n

El text en xin\u00e8s diu alguna cosa com \u00abNo a la vedella americana\u00bb (tot i que queda clar amb la imatge)<\/p>\n

Altres restaurant opten per donar suport a la vedella nacional de Taiwan<\/p>\n

\"IMAG0177\"<\/p>\n

Els plats amb vedella, especialment els \u00abnoodles amb vedella\u00bb s\u00f3n molt populars a Taiwan.
\n\"beef<\/p>\n

Amb aquest panorama, vam comen\u00e7ar a preguntar als taiwanesos que coneixem i tamb\u00e9 vam cercar a internet sobre aquest tema.<\/p>\n

Taiwan va prohibir les importacions de vedella americana l’any 2003 despr\u00e9s d’un cas de vaca boja a Seattle. La prohibici\u00f3 \u00e9s va aixecar a l’Abril del 2005 per cert tipus de vedella, per\u00f2 2 mesos m\u00e9s tard es va tornar a imposar la prohibici\u00f3 quan un altre cas de vaca boja es va con\u00e8ixer als Estats Units. Altres pa\u00efsos de la regi\u00f3 van aplicar mesures similars. La federaci\u00f3 de les c\u00e0rniques americanes diu que Taiwan \u00e9s el 6\u00e8 major importador de vedella americana, amb un valor d’uns $3 billions anuals.<\/p>\n

Els lligams entre Taiwan i els Estats Units s\u00f3n molt forts. USA va ajudar molt al desenvolupament de Taiwan amb fortes inversions en infraestructures i en la creaci\u00f3 de les empreses del \u00abMade in Taiwan\u00bb fa algunes d\u00e8cades. A la vegada USA disposava de bases militars per tenir la Xina comunista controlada de ben aprop. Una evid\u00e8ncia recent d’aquests lligams \u00e9s la venda de m\u00edssils americans al govern de Taiwan<\/a> (i aix\u00f2 ha enfadat molt a les autoritats de Beijing)<\/p>\n

En qualsevol cas, els Estats Units volien recuperar el negoci de la vedella. Durant el 2009 va haver-hi un debat molt calent sobre aquest tema, tant per part dels pol\u00edtics com per la poblaci\u00f3n en general. Podeu cercar \u00abUS beef\u00bb a les hemeroteques del Taipei Times<\/a> o del Taiwan News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

El resultat final va ser l’aixecament de la prohibici\u00f3<\/a> per part de les autoritats de Taiwan a finals del 2009. Molts ciutadans no hi estaven d’acord i es van organitzar manifestacions i tamb\u00e9 es va iniciar la campanya dels restaurants.<\/p>\n

\"p1c\"<\/p>\n

Ben aviat al 2010 el debat va tornar a arrencar i va acabar en una nova prohibici\u00f3 sobre alguns tipus de vedella americana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

En aquest tema, com en altres temes controvertits (com pot ser la relaci\u00f3 entre Taiwan i la Xina continental), la millor opci\u00f3 pels estrangers \u00e9s informar-se dels arguments de totes les parts implicades per\u00f2 intentar mantenir una posici\u00f3 neutral i no acabar de donar explicacions clares sobre el que un pensa.<\/p>\n

La vedella i els m\u00edssils s\u00f3n exemples de com Taiwan es troba atrapat entre dos grans monstres (Xina i els Estats Units).<\/p>\n

\"china_us_taiwan\"<\/p>\n

I haurem d’esperar a veure com acabaWalking around Taipei you can find a lot of restaurant with this sign:<\/p>\n

\"IMAG0226\"<\/p>\n

The chinese texts says something like \u00abNo to US beef.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Other restaurants also display a pro Taiwanese beef image<\/p>\n

\"IMAG0177\"<\/p>\n

Beef dishes, specially beef noodles are very popular in Taiwanese cuisine.
\n\"beef<\/p>\n

So, obviously, we asked local people and researched on the internet about this hot issue.<\/p>\n

Taiwan banned US beef in 2003 when a case of mad cow disease was diagnosed in Seattle. The ban was lifted in April 2005 to allow imports of US de-boned beef from cattle under 30 months but the government reimposed the ban two months later when a second BSE case was discovered in the US. Other countries in Asia applied similar restrictions. The US Meat Federation says Taiwan is the nation’s sixth largest market for US beef, whose total exports were a whopping $3 billion annually.<\/p>\n

The links between Taipei and US are very strong. US helped to developed Taiwan with huge investments on infrastructure and helped to grow the local industry \u00abmade in Taiwan\u00bb few decades ago. At the same time US had several military bases and used Taiwan to keep a close eye on the Communist mainland China. The most recent evidence of this link is the sale of US missiles to Taiwan government<\/a> (and that has really upset mainland China authorities)<\/p>\n

US wanted its beef business back. On 2009, there was a long debate on the political and public scene. The subject made into the national newspaper headlines. You can search for \u00abUS beef\u00bb on the newspaper library of Taipei Times<\/a> or Taiwan News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After this debate the ban was lifted<\/a> by the Taiwanese authorities late 2009. A lot of citizens did not agree and there were demonstrations and the campaign with the pictures on the restaurants was started<\/p>\n

\"p1c\"<\/p>\n

Early 2010 the debate started again and it ended up in a new ban for some kind of US beef imports<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As in many of the controversial issues here (such as on the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan (R.O.C.), the best option for foreigners is to be informed on the arguments used by each side but still remain neutral and not to express a clear position in favor of any of the sides.<\/p>\n

The beef and the missiles are examples on how Taiwan is caught between great powers (China and US) on every side.<\/p>\n

\"china_us_taiwan\"<\/p>\n

So we’ll need to wait and see how that develops…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tot caminant per Taipei \u00e9s f\u00e0cil topar-se amb restaurants que tenen aquest poster: El text en xin\u00e8s diu alguna cosa com \u00abNo a la vedella americana\u00bb (tot i que queda clar amb la imatge) Altres restaurant opten per donar suport a la vedella nacional de Taiwan Els plats amb vedella, especialment els \u00abnoodles amb vedella\u00bb […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-freak","category-madein"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t