Xi Jinping’s China Increases the Use of Economic Coercion.

The list of taboo topics for the CCP continues to grow.

This is a subject on which foreign companies in China prefer to remain discreet. They may be subject to economic pressure from Beijing to dissuade them from crossing certain red lines or to punish them for doing so.

Germany's Merics (Mercator Institute for China Studies) has identified 123 cases of coercion by China since February 2010 and has seen an up…