Coercion Beholder U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said in a 1964 case that he could not define hard core pornography “But I know it when I see it.” The G-7 called for an end to boycotts of purchasing Japanese farm products, calling it a form of coercion. Meanwhile, the U.S. has ended AGOA benefits to Gabon, Niger, the Central African Republic, and Uganda. It didn’t like the governmental transition in the first two, and the anti-LGBTQ policies of the latter. China quit buying food from Japan, asserting concerns over nuclear contamination since the release of sea water from the Fukushima nuclear reactor. There is no actual identified radiation risk in Japanese food.  Meanwhile, the U.S. has struck a...

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