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2019-12-20 Great White North
Canada to US: Don’t sign China deal until Canadians released
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday he has asked the United States to hold off on any final trade agreement with China until two Canadians detained in China have been released.

Beijing detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor last December in an apparent attempt to pressure Canada to release Meng Wanzhou, a top executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei. The daughter of Huawei’s founder was arrested last December at the request of US authorities who want her on fraud charges.

In an interview with the French-language TV network TVA that aired on Thursday, Trudeau said Canada has asked the Trump administration to use ongoing trade talks with China as leverage in securing the release of the two Canadians.

"We’ve said that the United States should not sign a final and complete agreement with China that does not settle the question of Meng Wanzhou and the two Canadians," Trudeau said in translated remarks.

No evidence has been provided in the Kovrig and Spavor cases and they have not been allowed access to family members or lawyers while in Chinese custody.

China and the US are embroiled in a trade war that has at times roiled global financial markets. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said Meng is not a bargaining chip in US-China trade talks.

Meng is accused of lying to banks about the company’s dealing with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in violation of US trade sanctions. She is out on bail in Vancouver and living in her multimillion-dollar mansion awaiting extradition proceedings.

Meng’s detention severely damaged Beijing’s relations with Ottawa. China has stopped importing certain Canadian products like canola, and it also re-sentenced a convicted Canadian drug smuggler to death after the Meng arrest as part of an apparent campaign of intimidation and retribution against Canada.

China has often retaliated against foreign governments and corporations in diplomatic disputes.

Posted by Fred 2019-12-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1 Why should Trump care what Trudeau wants, thinks or does? Trudeau has thoroughly "muddied the waters" in the bilateral US-Canada relationship where he could.
Posted by magpie 2019-12-20 00:20||   2019-12-20 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmmm....release a war WOT criminal, but want's Americans to delay a deal with the Chinese.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-20 03:17||   2019-12-20 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Let Trudeau cut his own deals.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-20 11:16||   2019-12-20 11:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Let NorthAmerican PajamaBoy paint his own face.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-20 11:45||   2019-12-20 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Why should Trump care what Trudeau wants, thinks or does? Trudeau has thoroughly "muddied the waters" in the bilateral US-Canada relationship where he could.

Trudeau is presumably threatening to release the Huawei heiress.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-12-20 17:39||   2019-12-20 17:39|| Front Page Top

#6 The Consensus seems to be: Screw Trudeau.

Canada doesn't appear to have all that much respect. I wonder WHY.
Posted by Tarzan Ebbolet7389 2019-12-20 21:04||   2019-12-20 21:04|| Front Page Top

#7 See: Trudeau
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-20 21:22||   2019-12-20 21:22|| Front Page Top

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