Montreal
Two years.
Relations between Ottawa and Beijing have been at daggers drawn for two years now.
Peaceful Canada is going through its most serious international crisis in years.
Nationals detained on each side, espionite, economic war, the ramifications of the conflict multiply.
The tone has risen again recently.
On November 10, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced
Chinese “
coercive diplomacy
”.
Immediate response from a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing: "
What the Canadian authorities are doing is what is called arbitrary detention
."
It all started on December 1, 2018. Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is suspected by Washington, which sees it as a threat to its national security, of having violated US sanctions against Tehran.
CFO and daughter of company founder Meng Wanzhou, 46 at the time, in transit at Vancouver airport, arrested by police
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