“They aren’t going to respond to that! They don’t care if their own citizens drop dead in the fields; they’re cynical profiteers who only care about the bottom line!” fumes Guinan Weatherhead, the Minister of Trade and Industry. “This sort of thing is exactly why we refuse to trade with other nations. We should pressure all their allies and major trade partners to do the same with them. That’ll teach them!”
The text makes it pretty clear this option is for nations with the Autarky policy. Option 2, which my puppet did not receive, is pretty clearly the non-Autarky alternative.