Reportedly, the Taiwan authorities have asked primary and secondary schools to add pineapple to students' diet on campus. The directive was issued because Japan, which Taiwan relies on for its pineapple exports, refused to increase the fruit's import quota in an attempt to bring down its price.

It seems that the students can help pay for the miscalculation of the authorities. It is the secessionist cause they pursue that has poisoned the island's normal economic and trade relations with the Chinese mainland.

The Democratic Progressive Party has fully shown its true colors as a pawn of the United States, creating troubles to not only cross-Strait trade but also people-to-people exchanges.

By doing this, the island authorities have sacrificed the interests of the Taiwan compatriots for their own narrow ends.

The DPP authorities are doing nothing but turning a deaf ear to the complaints of the farmers, who are actually paying for their misjudgment of the trend of history.

Every wrong they commit will remove one stone from the foundation of their rule, which will ultimately collapse and hasten national reunification.

It is a pity that the island, as a major producer of good pineapples, finds its strengths a headache maker.