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	<title>Comments on: How Japan Helped Ease the Rice Crisis</title>
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		<title>By: tochigi</title>
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		<description>so... Japan is forced by the US and its instrument of coercion, the WTO, to buy rice on international markets that it neither wants nor needs.

Then... when Japan decides to give away some of this rice to help countries in need and help take pressure off prices... they must go grovelling to the US to ask for permission.

All sounds pretty much like par for the course.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so&#8230; Japan is forced by the US and its instrument of coercion, the WTO, to buy rice on international markets that it neither wants nor needs.</p>
<p>Then&#8230; when Japan decides to give away some of this rice to help countries in need and help take pressure off prices&#8230; they must go grovelling to the US to ask for permission.</p>
<p>All sounds pretty much like par for the course.</p>
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