Retorsion
noun, International Law.
1.
retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
noun
1.
(rare) retaliatory action taken by a state whose citizens have been mistreated by a foreign power by treating the subjects of that power similarly; reprisal
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