•  liv   ( @liv@beehaw.org ) 
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    1 year ago

    You may be right about the CCP’s motivations, but there’s more to it.

    Nuclear safety is an issue of much public anxiety in China and there have been public protests about things like nuclear power plant sites.

    There also seems to be a fair amount of misinformation about nuclear stuff - not least because people sometimes don’t trust government spokespeople and govt sanctioned “experts”. Rumours about Fukushima have been part of that.

    Their government may well be capitalizing on it for the reasons you suggest, but a fear of Fukushima fish totally does track with the Chinese public.