Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a polarising move that prompted China to announce an immediate blanket ban on all aquatic products from Japan.

China is “highly concerned about the risk of radioactive contamination brought by… Japan’s food and agricultural products,” the customs bureau said in a statement.

The Japanese government signed off on the plan two years ago and it was given a green light by the U.N. nuclear watchdog last month. The discharge is a key step in decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi plant after it was destroyed by a tsunami in 2011.

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    China has entire towns that are toxic wastelands. This is just a political statement, probably their usual brainwashing of self.

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      Or just compare the dangers of microplastic, of which China is quite a source. The microplastic will be around long after (most of) the tritium is long gone.

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      Im almost 100% sure you pulled this propoganda out of your ass.

      Edit: i concede, there is at least 1 known toxic waste dump area in China that has a lake full of rare earth metals

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          This is kind of an interesting connection if you are bitching about me saying China doesnt own Taiwan given this article that you posted is about an autonomous region of China known as Inner Mongolia. Do you believe autonomous regions like Taiwan or Inner Mongolia are their own or are they Chinese?

          Secondly, this article is 100% about rare earth metals being disposed and how our consumption forces them to have these sorts of places. Sure you are right, they have a lake in Baotou that is basically poison and its a biproduct due to Chinese practices in manufacturing. Ill give you that, but keep buying made in China, force your problems to someone else and then blame them for the conditions they have. You are the type to look the other way to slave labor as long as you get the product you want.

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              The cell phone you are holding had components made in china. About 80% of all battery production comes from China.

              Its ok to say you dont know where you are buying the materials of the things you use, just dont forget what your purchasing power is helping to create. Its a toxic lake in northern China.

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                Purchased 6 years ago, before I monitored what I buy.

                I remembered why I thought you were a fucking moron. You make assumptions and shift goalposts like a section of a rubik’s cube.

                Nice brigading btw, I’m sure you people will make Lemmy a better place.

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                  I conceded to you already after seeing the article you sent me… You were the one that brought up my post history so I was talking about that. Then you went and made a confusing statement about calling me a conservative and a tankie which made no sense. Now you are saying I brigade and strive to make Lemmy a worse place. You are the one calling me names and talking shit for seemingly no reason. You could have just dropped the link and left like a sane person but you had to hit me with the "i read your post history you nerd now i got you where i want you 🤓 "

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        What I now think of brainwashing and those who fell victims to it is almost completely different than what I did when I was younger.

        I don’t blame you for thinking this way. Since these aren’t your ideas.