Polish apples, Xi Jinping arrived

In 2016, two years after Russia imposed an embargo on Polish apples, Xi Jinping arrived in Warsaw to seal a deal: the apples would find a new market in China. As Europe’s largest—and the world’s fourth-largest—apple producer, Poland saw hope in this pivot. A photo of Xi and President Andrzej Duda, smiling as they ate apples together from a crate, quickly became the symbol of that promise. But the deal proved unfruitful: China, itself the world’s largest apple producer, was more of a rival than a buyer. Between 2016 and 2019, Poland sold fewer than 2,000 tonnes of apples to China, barely a statistical blip. สล็อตเว็บตรง