Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Thursday about China’s detainment of Canadians. A press release from the Prime Minister’s Office explained … ( read original story …)
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Former Liberal minister accuses China of using ‘hostage diplomacy’
A former Liberal justice minister accused China of using “hostage diplomacy” because of its death penalty sentence of one Canadian man, the imprisonment of two more and the harassment of a Montreal wo… ( read…
China’s first plant on the moon withers and dies soon after sprouting
But the good news over the plant’s germination was quickly over. Xinhua, China’s state-owned press agency, announced the plants died on Sunday. “The experiment has ended,” it said. ( read original story …)
China says economy czar to visit Washington for trade talks
China’s economy czar, Vice-Premier Liu He, will visit Washington on Jan. 30-31 for talks aimed at ending a costly tariff war over U.S. complaints about Beijing’s technology ambitions. The announcement … ( read original story…
Ottawa’s allies feel the chill as Beijing shows how it will likely act as a superpower
There have been detentions, dark warnings and a death sentence. And the rhetoric in the seething dispute with China turned strangely to whether Canada has a lot of friends. In Beijing, the Chinese for… (…
China shrugs off international criticism over death sentence for Canadian
China said on Wednesday it’s “not worried in the slightest … said he was “deeply concerned” by the case. Speaking at a daily news briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chuny… ( read…
Chinese police prevent Canadian woman from returning home on connecting flight through Beijing
OTTAWA—Chinese police boarded a plane in Beijing and refused to allow a Canadian woman, daughter of a jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist, to transit through Beijing airport en route from South Kore… ( read original story…
Curlers watching developments in Canada-China relations ahead of World Cup in Beijing
Canadian coach Marcel Rocque spent nearly three years working with the Chinese curling program. He’d have no problem travelling back despite the heightened tension between the two countries. “I’ve exp… ( read original story …)
Curlers keeping an eye on Canada-China tensions ahead of Beijing World Cup
Relations between Ottawa and Beijing have become strained since Canada’s arrest of Chinese executive Meng Wanzhou at the request of the United States last month. Canadian coach Marcel Rocque spent nea… ( read original story…
The US and British navies have joined forces for the first time in the South China Sea, risking Beijing’s fury
The US and British navies have conducted their first joint military drills in the South China Sea, where a rising China is tightening its grip. The US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer … ( read…
China brushes off mounting international concern over Canadian sentenced to death
China said on Wednesday that it was “not worried … said he was “deeply concerned” by the case. Speaking at a daily news briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua … ( read original…
Canada asks China’s ambassador for clemency in case of death-row Canadian
We are also in touch with the Chinese government in China at a number of levels, and that continuing that dialogue is very important.” Global Affairs Canada confirmed to CBC News Tuesday that it provi……
Global pressure might help Canadian sentenced to death in China: former ambassador
“The President of the United States can grant clemency but the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China … doesn’t have that particular pardon power,” he told CTV News Channel. “That is still within ……
