Chinese Economic Bullying an Ongoing Concern With South Korea, Japan: Kirby

Beijing’s economic coercion is a topic that frequently comes up in conversations between the United States and its Asian allies, such as Japan and South Korea, according to a top White House national security official. “I don’t know of too many conversations we’ve had with our Korean and Japanese counterparts where in some forms or fashion Chinese economic bullying practices don’t come up,” John Kirby, the National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications, told reporters in a press conference on Dec. 7. Mr. Kirby made the comments in response to a question from NTD, the sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, regarding the Chinese regime exerting economic and diplomatic pressure to block U.S. dance company Shen Yun from performing in South Korea....