Japan is taking China to the WTO over the banning of
import of seafood from Japan. As I said earlier, China's ban is a matter
of survival for Japan's seafood industry. The reality is setting in.
Even
if Japan were to succeed to open up the China market again to Japanese
seafood, what is there to prevent Chinese citzens throughout the country
from to boycotting the seafood from Japan? What can the WTO do? China
could easily get its seafood from Russia, which the Russians are doing
so now and happily taking over the market. And once that happens, it is
more like 'Sayonara' sushi.
Japan is in inextricable decline
even without the Fukushima seafood contamination issue. Japan's rise was
largely attributed to the global demand for their Internal Combustion
Engine vehicles for decades, and their consumer electronics hold over
the years. Today, Japanese car makers are no longer monopolising the car
market worldwide for Internal Combustion Engine vehicles, as they were
relatively slow to migrate to EVs, and its electronics sector has now
been cannibalised by South Korea and also China.
I would not say
that Japan's adoption of EV production were slow, but it was due to its
outright intention to avoid EVs, out of fear of being too dependent on
China for certain raw materials for electric vehicles. Japan therefore
opt not to go into EV. Instead they opted for hydrogen fuel cell
vehicles, with Toyota and Honda the main propagators swaying the
direction, and totally resistant to changes. Other Japanese car makers
had more interest in EVs, but unable to carry the ground as these two
main Japanese car makers have a strong hold on the Government and
lobbying groups.
The problem with hydrogen fuel cells is that
even if the Japanese managed to succeed domestically by installing fuel
cell points in Japan, which is today even massively inadequate to cope,
people in other countries are not going to buy such vehicles that needs
massive investments in setting up fuel cell top up points countrywide,
apart from safety concerns like electric shocks and inflammality of
Hydrogen. Compared to EVs, with power lines already linking every nook
and corner, this is a very inconvenient factor.
Anonymous
PS. With the contamination of the ocean by the Japanese, Japan just bury itself eternally. The contamination would not disappear for ages.
Good morning All
ReplyDeleteBillions yuan and yen currencies for their SeaFood to China now KAPUT.
Now crying fathers and mothers and unfair discriminations.
All the while with the White Barbarians and other Traitous Scoundrols to provoke China and now cried WTO! WTO!
Hey? WTO-What's To Order our Billions earnings SeaFood?
Think a hundred times thru your numb and dumb thick skulls b4 u do silly and evil deeds.
Not to worry, sinkieland first lady will help to bring more fish from jepun to sinkieland for the next 5 years. The daft sinkies will be happily consuming radiation fish with pineapple to go along...hahaha
ReplyDeleteGood idea. With China, Hong Kong, Macao and Koreas closing their doors to Japanese seafood, Japan can sell all its seafood to Singapore. Maybe eating pineapple after eating seafood can help to reduce effects of radiation. Maybe lah....
ReplyDeleteEven in semiconductors, Japan is facing industry wide decline by following the USA against China. Japan also tried to strangle China by restricting machine tool sales to China. China is now investing heavily in making their own machine tools. In time to come, Japan's machine tool industry will suffer too, and even if they want to sell to China, the market is closed to them forever. The lesson is, never try to kill the goose that lay the golden eggs.
ReplyDeleteSouth Korea is already facing difficulty in sourcing for rare earth metals, with Gallium said to be 50% more expensive with Chinese restrictions. They are hoping that Mongolian rare earth ores will find a way to be transported to Japan for processing and thus be able to help them. This is just the beginning. Korean consumer products, especially those that needed Gallium as one of its component, will cost more and will be competing against the Chinese.
South Korea and Japan are just reaping what they sow.
As a matter of concern, even if China bans Japanese seafood, there are still issues that should leave the Chinese, and even us, still worrying. If those Japanese seafood are prevented from being imported into China, where would they be going? Not to USA or EU you can be sure. The Whites will rise up from the grave to protest if it is done. And the sky would fall! Only those who have their fingers in the fire knows where it hurts.
ReplyDeleteSuffice to say, all those excess seafood could very well ended up as animal feed for the Japanese farmers, which again begs the question of how safe should we be looking at all Japanese foodstuffs going forward? Or perhaps not too early even now.
Can you imagine what would happen if marine life and seafood around Japan were found to be contaminated and unfit for consumption after one or two discharge? The whole of Japan would be lock down.
ReplyDeleteJapan would be isolated like a leper colony.
https://youtu.be/wg14__k-wHk?si=NynHADZB0x0DMQYT
ReplyDeleteJpn panic lost billions.