{"id":2013351,"date":"2023-08-27T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fukushima-water-release-causes-larger-ripple-effect-with-china\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T09:17:09","slug":"fukushima-water-release-causes-larger-ripple-effect-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fukushima-water-release-causes-larger-ripple-effect-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima water release triggers significant impact on China."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffukushima-water-release-causes-larger-ripple-effect-with-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>China&#8217;s Strong Rebuke of Fukushima Wastewater Release Sparks Geopolitical Tensions<\/h2>\n<p>China&#8217;s strong rebuke of the release \u200cof treated Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific Ocean \u200dthis week has caused bad blood, stoked accusations of misinformation and hypocrisy, and led\u200c to some\u200d suggesting Beijing is capitalizing on the\u2064 event to help stir up broader geopolitical\u2063 tensions with Japan.<\/p>\n<h3>Tensions \u200dEscalate as Japan Releases Treated Wastewater<\/h3>\n<p>Tensions began ramping up\u200c Thursday after \u200bJapan began the \u2062release \u2064of treated wastewater from its \u2063Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into \u2062the Pacific Ocean \u2014 a plan \u200bthat was subject to\u2064 years of scrutiny from the\u2064 Japanese \u2063government, utility providers, and\u200c the United Nations&#8217; \u200bnuclear watchdog, which have \u2062cleared the treated water as safe for\u200b release.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The release was selfish and irresponsible,&#8221; Chinese officials said in\u2062 a statement, adding that \u2063the ocean &#8220;belongs to all humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Japanese \u200cPrime Minister Fumio\u200c Kishida asked \u2064China to immediately lift the ban, and reiterated his country\u2019s strong request &#8220;that the Chinese government carry out \u200ba scientific \u2064discussion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tokyo Electric Power Company President\u2063 Tomoaki Kobayakawa pledged to do his &#8220;utmost&#8221;\u200b to\u200d provide scientific assessments of the release in \u200border \u2064to lift \u2062the ban, \u200cnoting China&#8217;s status as the top\u2064 importer\u2062 of Japanese\u200d goods.<\/p>\n<h3>Political Motivations Behind China&#8217;s Ban<\/h3>\n<p>Though the decision will \u2062have economic impacts for Japan, which exports the majority of its seafood to China, roughly $600 million per year, \u2064analysts say \u2064the \u200ddecision \u200bis more\u2062 politically motivated.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I would think there is the baseline level of suspicion that\u200b the People&#8217;s Republic of China holds for Japan to begin, so they are likely\u200c to \u200bread Japanese actions more negatively,\u201d Chong Ja Ian, \u2062a\u200b political scientist at the National University of Singapore, told a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-news-service-sues-elon-musks-x-over-failing-to-compensate-news-outlets\/\" title=\"French news service sues Elon Musk's X for not paying news outlets.\">local news \u2062outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then \u200bthere\u200b is the continuing effort to\u200d paint Japan as \u2062a negative force regionally and \u200binternationally. This\u2063 seems part of the features of PRC-Japan\u2063 rivalry,\u2063 which\u2064 is of \u2064course \u2062entangled with PRC-U.S. competition, given Tokyo\u2019s close alliance relationship with Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wen-Ti Sung, a political scientist at Australian National University, agreed, telling Reuters he sees China\u2019s response as a\u2062 &#8220;convenient&#8221; tool to rally society and help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fukushima-water-release-causes-larger-ripple-effect-with-china\/\" title=\"Fukushima water release triggers significant impact on China.\">rebuild waning nationalist \u200dsentiment<\/a> in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The China-Japan thaw will have to wait,\u201d he \u200bsaid. &#8220;Now \u2063that Japan \u2063and South Korea \u2063are able to put down their differences to\u200d form regular trilateral talks with the United States, China is \u2064in no hurry\u2062 to break the ice with Japan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>China&#8217;s Tritium Release \u2062and Differentiating Factors<\/h3>\n<p>Separate from the underlying geopolitical issues, some were quick to point out that \u200dChina\u2019s Fuqing power plant\u200b in Fujian province releases roughly three times as much tritium into the Pacific than Fukushima, something officials in\u2064 Beijing \u2063have tried to play\u2064 down\u2064 in recent days.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is a fundamental difference between\u200c the nuclear-contaminated water that came into direct contact with \u2064the \u2064melted reactor \u200bcores in the Fukushima nuclear disaster and\u200b the water released by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-denies-leak-after-fuel-rod-trouble-reported-at-nuclear-power-plant\/\" title=\"China denies leak after fuel rod trouble reported at nuclear power plant\">nuclear power plants<\/a> in \u200cnormal operation,\u201d \u2063China\u2019s foreign ministry\u200b spokesperson, Wang Wenbin, said \u2062Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are different in nature,\u2062 come from different sources, and\u200c require different levels of\u200c sophistication to handle,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from \u2063The Washington \u2063Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>release of treated Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. China&#8217;s response has sparked conflict, with allegations of misinformation and hypocrisy. Some believe Beijing is exploiting the situation to fuel wider geopolitical tensions with Japan. 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