Exclusive: US military bulk buys Japanese seafood to counter China ban
Exclusive: US military bulk buys Japanese seafood to counter China ban
The United States has started bulk buying Japanese seafood to supply its military there in response to China's ban on such products imposed after Tokyo released treated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
My favorite food is bulk seafood rejected by China over misplaced fears of radioactivity. The half life is how you know it’s fresh.
misplaced fears of radioactivity.
The half life is how you know it’s fresh.
Would you please make up your mind?
Either way, I lean towards you being right the first time and afaik Japan has some of the absolute best seafood in the world, so China are missing out big-time!
Pretty sure they were making a joke. "The X adds flavor" is an old one at that doesnt even have to be about polution. I remember my uncle cutting himself while making burgers once and some of the blood hitting the grill and saying the same thing.
Who will win this war? Can the US army eat as much seafood as the Chinese population?
I see a Japanese game show in the making! Add some scantily clad women and a sumo wrestler farting in the face of the losers of each round and we have a hit!
There's no way the entire Chinese population is dependent on Japan alone for their seafood.
no, idk why but so many americans are disgusted by fish lol
iT hAs BoNeS iN iT!!!1
There is something fishy about this.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Unveiling the initiative in a Reuters interview on Monday, U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said Washington should also look more broadly into how it could help offset China's ban that he said was part of its "economic wars".
Emanuel said the purchases - which will feed soldiers in messes and aboard vessels as well as being sold in shops and restaurants on military bases - will increase over time to all types of seafood.
Emanuel, who was former U.S. President Barack Obama's White House chief of staff, has in recent months made a series of blunt statements on China, taking aim at various issues including its economic policies, opaque decision-making and treatment of foreign firms.
That has come as top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have visited Beijing in an effort to draw a line under strained ties.
The most recent official youth unemployment data from China, published in July before Beijing said it was suspending publication of the numbers, showed it jumping to a record high of 21.3%.
Emanuel said he was also keeping an eye on how China's leadership responds to the recent death of former Premier Li Keqiang, a reformist who was sidelined by President Xi Jinping.
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Why not send some of that sweet sweet surplus Japanese fish over here to the mainland US? Afraid of lowering food prices in general? Screw that. Groceries are still absurdly expensive for us plebs, but sure, send all this food to the military. $800 billion a year clearly isn’t enough to satiate them. Don’t worry about all the civilians who can’t afford their meals.