
Bakery disappears from Chinese delivery apps after Taiwanese leader receives gift in store
Netizens react furiously to gift given in Los Angeles branch of 85˚C
Search for a major Taiwanese bakery chain on China’s biggest food delivery apps and you won’t find it anymore. 85˚C has over 600 stores in China, but it’s apparently disappeared from Ele.me and Meituan-Dianping.
We haven’t received a response from Ele.me, and Meituan-Dianping declined to comment.
(Abacus is a unit of the South China Morning Post, which is owned by Alibaba -- which also owns Ele.me.)

The company says it supports peaceful cross-strait communications and relations, adding that it firmly supports the 1992 Consensus -- which maintains that there is only One China, but allows both sides to separately define what that means.
Chinese internet users were not satisfied with that response, because they discovered that it was only posted on the company’s mainland China website and social media accounts. The post on Weibo drew more than 20,000 comments, many lashing out at the company.

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