By Steve Scherer OTTAWA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - China on Thursd
By Steve Scherer
OTTAWA, Oct 15 (Reuters) – China on Thursday denied it had taken two Canadian males hostage, and repeated a name for the discharge of a Huawei Applied sciences Co Ltd HWT.UL govt held in Canada who faces extradition to the US amid a long-running diplomatic dispute.
Huawei Chief Monetary Officer Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese language citizen, was arrested in Vancouver in late 2018 on a financial institution fraud warrant issued by U.S. authorities.
Meng has stated she is harmless and is preventing extradition in a Canadian court docket. Shortly after Meng’s arrest, Beijing detained two Canadians on nationwide safety costs and halted imports of canola seed.
Tensions flared once more this week when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated he would work with allies to battle China’s “coercive diplomacy.” He warned that arbitrary arrests, repression in Hong Kong and placing Muslim minorities in detention camps added as much as “not a very productive path.”
That earned him an official rebuke from the Chinese language authorities on Wednesday.
“There isn’t any coercive diplomacy on the Chinese language facet,” Cong Peiwu, China’s envoy to Ottawa, stated in a video information convention on Twitter. “These two Canadian residents have been prosecuted as a result of they had been suspected of partaking in actions which endanger our nationwide safety.”
Cong went on to say Meng and the arrests of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig had been “not associated” and that it was Canada that used “coercive measures” by arresting Meng when “she was breaking no Canadian legislation in any respect.”
Cong once more known as for the instant launch of Meng “to create situations to convey Canada-China relations again heading in the right direction.”
Responding to a query a couple of media report {that a} Hong Kong pro-democracy protester had been granted asylum in Canada, Cong stated China strongly urged that “violent criminals” from Hong Kong not be granted asylum.
“It’s interference in China’s home affairs and definitely will embolden these violent criminals,” he stated. If Canada needs to maintain the 300,000 Canadian passport holders in Hong Kong protected, it mustn’t need to defend them from such “violent criminals,” he added.
(Reporting by Steve Scherer; Enhancing by Richard Chang)
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