(Tokyo Reuters) The United States began to purchase Japanese seafood in batches and supplies the US military stationed in Japan to help Japan offset China's impact on imports of imports of Japanese aquatic products.
The US Ambassador to Japan Emmanuel on Monday (October 30) said in an interview that this move is a long -term contract between the US military and the Japanese fishery and cooperatives; the United States has proven that "eliminating China's economic coercionThe best way is to provide assistance to the affected countries or industries. "
Emmanuel said that the import ban on Japanese seafood is part of China's "economic war". The United States should more widely study how to help Japan offset the impact of China's ban.
China was originally the largest importer of Japan's seafood, but after the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan started the operation of water -row sea, China was prohibited from importing Japanese aquatic products due to food safety considerations.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded to Emmanuel's remarks at a regular press conference on Monday: "The responsibility of diplomats is to promote the friendship between the country, not to discredit other countries, and the right and wrong." The first batch of scallops purchased in the United States was less than one metric tons, and Japan exported more than 100,000 metric ton scallops to China last year.Emmanuel said that the United States will increase procurement in the future, and the scope of procurement will also expand to all seafood types.
