China's Fukushima-linked seafood ban unacceptable, Japan tells WTO

China's Fukushima-linked seafood ban unacceptable, Japan tells WTO

Fukushima accidents also is not acceptable, beside water how much other radioactive waste that being produced just to contain that power plant, over 10 years ?

Unacceptable? When your fellow countrymen are pitching a fit about the same situation and you have to nerve to tell others they are wrong?

Truly, the word "hypocrite" fits here!

The blanket ban is political, that much is clear.

China has every right to protect people’s health.

Say China loses the case at the World Trade Organization and the ban is lifted. Do you think the Chinese will start buying/ eating seafood from Fukushima or Japan? The damage has been done.

Is the amount of seafood from Japan being imported by the U.S. increasing or decreasng?

quercetumToday 05:18 pm JST

Say China loses the case at the World Trade Organization and the ban is lifted. Do you think the Chinese will start buying/ eating seafood from Fukushima or Japan? The damage has been done.

We already know the Hong Kongers weren't too worried about it, but then they know their government is garbage.

Why not Japan invite all stakeholders including South Korea, China, Russia, Philippines, Singapore, Greenpeace to send their team to inspect the water. It should shut everyone up and save Japanese taxpayers monies spent on propaganda.

China- people in glass houses should not throw stones.

Ah, Japan.

Always ready to play the victim card.

Derek GrebeToday  07:11 pm JST

Ah, Japan.

Always ready to play the victim card.

Uhh...it's actually China who is playing the "victim card" for solely political purposes.

"Scientists have pointed out that China’s own nuclear power plants release wastewater with higher levels of tritium than that found in Fukushima’s discharge, and that the levels are all within boundaries not considered to be harmful to human health."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant-china-wastewater-release

FreshmeatToday  05:24 pm JST

Why not Japan invite all stakeholders including South Korea, China, Russia, Philippines, Singapore, Greenpeace to send their team to inspect the water.

That is the job of the IAEA. Which China has been member of since 1984. The IAEA has ok'd the release.

Politics STINKS more than most fish.

Do you think China cares the WTO or whatever Japan tells the WTO?

All they have to say is, National Security, like what you used. Every country has their own version of it. Not just the American's, or, yours.

As much as I despise the groundless Chinese ban,

To ease the pain of losing that seafood demand, Japan will spend more than 100 billion yen to support the domestic fisheries industry.

this is the LDPs solution to everything.

Just sell the stuff to new markets! Japan has free trade agreements with Australia, Brunei, Chile, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. And we all like sushi.

＠　elephant

Do you think China cares the WTO or whatever Japan tells the WTO?

Silly man!! Then why did China do this?

"China's Aug. 31 notification to WTO on its measures to suspend Japanese aquatic imports"

@ Jim

China has every right to protect people’s health.

Ha ha ha, there is so much wrong with this sentence! And it's not the grammar!!

Japan needs to retaliate by banning imports of cheap plastic products that could easily be made in Japan

It won’t though

Japan Inc owns the factories that the cheap Chinese labor is busy churning out-Japan can only go and cry to the WTO…

Some Japanese officials have signaled the country may file a WTO complaint, which the U.S. ambassador to Japan said last week the United States would support.

Yes, make the official complaint without question. It won't change the Chinese government's behavior, but it will show them up for the lying hypocrites that they are (see also: the UNCLOS tribunal ruling.)

As long as they're being unreasonable (which will be the case for as long as the CCP is in power), the rest of the world needs to broadcast China's hypocrisy loud and clear.

FreshmeatToday 05:24 pm JST

Why not Japan invite all stakeholders including South Korea, China, Russia, Philippines, Singapore, Greenpeace to send their team to inspect the water.

That's what the IAEA is doing, with its international team. China's ban is purely political - nothing else.

@Yubaru

Truly, the word "hypocrite" fits here!

China regularly releases water into the ocean from its own nuclear plants with higher levels of tritium than the water from Fukushima. So THERE'S your hypocrisy right there.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant-china-wastewater-release

It's painful how poor the Japanese are at offering up effective, science-backed public relations responses.

If I were Japan, I'd be screaming to the skies about China's MASSIVE pollution into the sea...not just from nuclear plants (though that would be my first major focus). There are plants in China where the levels of tritium (to say nothing of other waste) exceeds by a factor of TEN the levels that Japan is now releasing into the sea!

And yet...China bans JAPAN'S seafood? lol. What do you think your own Chinese government has been letting you eat for literally DECADES, Chinese? Or do you only think that "foreigners' tritium" alone hurts people? lol. SILLY!

But of course, rational responses, "science" or reasonableness are NOT the point here. And yes, the WTO should vote in favour of Japan's claims of "unreasonableness" when China bans an entire country's imports based on a FRACTION of the trace materials that the Chinese own industries habitually pump out!

It's almost as if China has a death wish, to bring down on itself the entire world's ire, all at once! Have you seen their new "standard map" released by the government, you know, the one that lays claims to not just Taiwan (an independent nation China's NEVER ever administered), but even MORE of the South Sea (it's now a "10 line dash") leading to protests from Vietnam AND Malaysia AND the Philippines, PLUS territorial claims to India's state of Arunachal Pradesh to boot! Yikes! NOT an "honest broker"!

Throw in this spat with the Japanese and it's little wonder Xinnie The Poohbear has decided to skip the next G20 meet hosted by...India! lol. ("But Muh BRICS"...lol)

Thats right!

Dont can't take this lying down.

Stand up! Time to strike back...

lets see...how bout a shut down no more offshore cheap labor loving Loot making fact-

doh!

Japan needs to retaliate by banning imports of cheap plastic products that could easily be made in Japan

It won’t though

Japan Inc owns the factories that the cheap Chinese labor is busy churning out-Japan can only go and cry to the WTO…

China's ban on Japanese seafood unacceptable Japan?

Say that again, Japan?

Again and again, and again: Japan!

And and again and AGAIN !!!!!!!!!! JAPAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

considering that China's and Koreas nuclear reactors pump even higher level of the same isotopes into the sea at normal operations, this is just rank hypocrisy and pandering to their local far right

Why is it unacceptable? Because Japan says so?

Well, I wouldn't eat the fish and I live 7000 miles away!

otherworldlyToday  06:23 am JST

Why is it unacceptable? Because Japan says so?

Because China us using trade as a weapon. Their position is not based on science, and is entirely political.