China Envoy To Canada Urges Against 'Decoupling' 04/13/21 AT 8:06 PM Beijing's ambassador to Canada on Tuesday pushed back at growing calls in the West to disengage from China, saying this would risk unravelling globalization. Ambassador Cong Peiwu, 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)," the ambassador said.