Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/12/26
By: Yang Shu-min and Christie Chen

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Taipei, Dec. 26 (CNA) Taiwan has asked Beijing five times for updates about the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in China, but those requests have fallen on deaf ears, a Taiwanese official said Wednesday.

Li Tui-chih (李退之), deputy head of the Council of Agriculture (COA), said at a press conference that the council has formally asked China five times to provide updates about ASF, but no response has been received.

Li also refuted a remark made by Ma Xiaoguang (馬曉光), spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, earlier in the day that the ASF epidemic in China has not yet reached a “massive scale.”

The disease has spread to 23 Chinese provinces or regions, Li said, asking “if that is not a massive scale, what is?”    [FULL  STORY]