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US military will buy seafood from Japan to offset Chinese ban
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https://thehill.com/policy/international/4284042-us-military-japan-seafood-china-ban/
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Emanuel pushed for more ways Washington could help offset China’s ban on seafood, which was put in place in August in response to the the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s release of diluted and treated radioactive wastewater back into the Pacific Ocean.
Japan’s move to release the wastewater came under fire from Chinese leaders at the time, including China’s Foreign Ministry, who said China “firmly opposes and strongly condemns it” and that Japan disregarded the criticism of the international community.
“The best way we have proven in all the instances to kind of wear out China’s economic coercion is come to the aid and assistance of the targeted country or industry,” Emanuel told Reuters.
“The precautionary measures taken by China and some other countries in response to Japan’s move to protect food safety and people’s health are entirely legitimate, reasonable and necessary,” Wenbin said Monday.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida defended the controversial plan in August and argued it is an essential step in plant decommissioning and in the recovery process for Fukushima following a 2011 earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the plant’s cooling systems, melted three reactors and contaminated the cooling water.
At the time of the release, the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, pledged to help local businesses impacted by the bans and vowed to work to have the ban dropped by providing scientific explanations to China.
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