Disney Fired Beijing Staff Just Before GOP China Hawk Questioned CEO: Report

Disney Fired Beijing Staff Just Before GOP China Hawk Questioned CEO: Report

Disney fired hundreds of employees in China earlier this year, days before CEO Bob Iger was scheduled to meet with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. The company laid off more than 300 employees in Beijing in March, one week ahead of the meeting, the Wall Street Journal reported. Heads of Disney anticipated questions on data security given the company's use of Chinese staffers who had…