<span style="color: #222222;">China has stopped issuing short-term visas to individuals from South Korea and Japan in retaliation for Covid restrictions on Chinese travellers.<br />''<br />''Visas for South Koreans entering China have been suspended, Beijing's embassy in South Seoul said, with Japanese media reporting China had imposed similar measures there.<br />''<br />''Beijing says the rule will remain in place until discriminatory entry restrictions against China are lifted.</span><br />