Chinese Ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu (叢培武) on Tuesday pushed back at growing calls in the West to disengage from China, saying this would risk unraveling globalization.
Cong, speaking at the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations, also pitched closer cooperation with Canada ostensibly an olive branch after two years of frayed diplomatic relations over tit-for-tat arrests of a Huawei executive and two Canadian nationals, or an attempt to hammer a wedge in a US-led alliance taking on Beijing.
“We are worried that because some people here in Western countries are preaching the idea of decoupling” with China, Cong said.
“This is
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Chinese ambassador denies mistreatment of two detained Canadians
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Apr 13, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT
OTTAWA China’s ambassador to Canada says the media has “hyped up” stories about violations against the two Canadians detained in China.
Speaking at an event organized by the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations, Cong Peiwu says Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are on trial for suspected crimes of secretly gathering state secrets and leaking them to foreign countries.
He says their trials are not open to the public because their charges are related to China’s national security.
The two Michaels were detained in December 2018 in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on an extradition request from the United States.