In this March 9, 2013 photo, porters unload boxes of Chinese oranges at Long Bien wholesale market for fruits and vegetables in Hanoi, Vietnam. Around half of the produce at the market is trucked in from China, arriving in the city in the middle of the night and distribute for Hanoi and neighbor areas. China has emerged as one of the world's leading exporters of fruit and vegetables, and is increasingly taking market share from U.S. producers in Asian markets. It grows more apples than any other country. There are no figures on how much of the crop Vietnam imports. Chinese fruit is often cheaper than Vietnamese, and offers more variety.(AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)
News Summary: Vietnamese wary of Chinese fruit
Published: 06:25:34 PM, Mon 18 March 2013 UTC
TAINTED FRUIT: Recent rumors of tainted Chinese fruit led many Vietnamese shoppers to shun not only imports from that country but imported fruit altogether.
WARY NEIGHBORS: In Vietnam, fears about food safety are easily tangled up with anti-Chinese sentiment. More than 1,000 years of occupation, a bloody border war in 1979 and renewed assertiveness by China in pushing territorial claims in the South China Sea mean that tales of Chinese perfidy find fertile soil.
HERE TO STAY: But China remains Vietnam's largest trading partner, and that will not change anytime soon, regardless of the bad press its fruits get.
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