A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a written statement on Tuesday expressing China's "serious concern as Japan's close neighbor and a stakeholder" about the Japanese government's decision to discharge nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.The Chinese side asks the Japanese side to re-examine the issue of nuclear wastewater disposal at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and points out that "the discharge into the sea shall not be started arbitrarily without adequate consultation and agreement has been reached with all interested countries and the International Atomic Energy Agency".The unnamed spokesperson said that China will continue to closely follow the development of the situation together with the international community and it reserves the right to make further responses."We strongly urge the Japanese side to reco
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