Shortly after Meng's arrest, China detained two Canadians—Michael Spavor and and Michael Kovrig—who are still being held in Chinese prisons.

Roughly a week after Meng's arrest, Chinese officials arbitrarily detained two Canadians—Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig—on charges of espionage, a move widely seen as a retaliation against Canada.

(video screenshot) “The final straw for me and for many Canadians was the kidnapping of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor,” said McCuaig-Johnston at “The Challenge of China” conference in Ottawa on June 3.

Department of Justice (DOJ) to allow Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou to avoid extradition and a criminal trial and get off with a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), which ended with Meng and Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor returning

“That obviously stems from the arbitrary detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, but that concerns all countries around the world that people will use arbitrary detentions of their citizens for personal gain, for political gain.”

Soon after, China arrested Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig and charged them with spying. It also blocked imports of some canola seed.

Last year, the Liberals' then-foreign affairs minister did warn that tough talk on China could be met by further consequences for Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, two Canadians who have been detained by the Chinese government for 800 days.

(The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh) Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, has asserted that Washington did not make China’s release of the two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, a condition of the resolution of the charges against

Nine days after Meng’s arrest in Vancouver on Dec. 1, 2018, two Canadian citizens, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, were detained in Beijing.

China has imprisoned two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, in apparent retaliation for the RCMP arresting Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou nearly two years ago on a U.S. extradition warrant.

Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

Dealing with threats from China has become one of the primary focuses of Canada’s foreign policy since the 2018 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and the subsequent detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in what is widely regarded

“With the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, opinions of China may have softened,” said MLI in a press release on Jan. 11.

Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained by the Chinese authorities soon after Meng was arrested, a move that is widely believed to be in retaliation for Meng’s arrest.

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in December 2018, in a move widely viewed as retaliation for Canada's arrest of top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on an extradition request from the United States.

China arrested Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor nine days later in what is widely viewed as retaliation and has levelled accusations of spying against them.

Two other Canadian men—businessman Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat—were detained in China days after Meng's arrest, and were charged in June 2020 with espionage. China has denied that their arrest is linked to Meng's case.

Turnisa Matsedik-Qira, of the Vancouver Uyghur Association, demonstrates against China's treatment of Uyghurs while holding a photo of detained Canadians Michael Spavor (L) and Michael Kovrig outside a court appearance for Huawei Chief Financial Officer

Kovrig and Michael Spavor (last month, the two men were allowed to return to their homeland).

Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were first detained by the regime not long after Meng’s arrest, prompting observers to describe them as victims of a high-stakes game of “hostage diplomacy.”

The CanSino partnership with Dalhousie predated the deep freeze in Canada-China relations that occurred after the People's Republic imprisoned two Canadian men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, in apparent retaliation for the RCMP's arrest of Chinese

"It is disappointing that the trial that Michael Spavor went through and possibly the trial that Michael Kovrig will go through on Monday are happening in secret without transparency, without access by Canadian consular officials," Trudeau said during

The Chinese communist regime detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor shortly after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on an extradition request from the United States.

China’s arrests of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and subsequent allegations of spying are widely seen as attempts by China to pressure Canada to release Meng. Her lawyers have accused U.S.

and Michael Kovrig.

This behaviour can be observed in the “arbitrary detention” of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, its “significant hardened posture” when questioned about its human rights record, and the crackdown in Hong Kong and on Uyghur Muslims

Shortly after Meng's arrest, Beijing arbitrarily detained Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, sentenced Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg to death on drug charges, and blocked the import of Canadian agricultural products.

China also arrested and later tried two other Canadians, entrepreneur Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig, on spying charges in apparent retaliation for Meng’s detention. Critics have described their arrests as “hostage politics.”

Spavor and Michael Kovrig.

Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were arbitrarily detained in China in December 2018, just days after Meng was arrested at the Vancouver airport at the request of the United States, where she is wanted on bank fraud charges related to alleged violations