State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter reiterated U.S. calls for China to release the two men, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, from "arbitrary and unacceptable" detention during a regular briefing in Washington.

Spavor and Michael Kovrig detained in China.

A poll done by Nanos following the dramatic release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor concluded that 76 percent of Canadians want Chinese tech giant Huawei banned from participating in Canada’s 5G infrastructure.

A push to “condemn” and “eradicate” arbitrary detentions could apply to any country, but is likely motivated by the case of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig who were detained in China for over 1,000 days in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of

Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor were rounded up by Chinese authorities nine days after the RCMP arrested the Chinese high-tech scion at the Vancouver airport in December 2018 on a U.S. extradition warrant

Soon after Meng’s arrest, China detained two Canadians citizens in 2018—Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor—which has been widely interpreted as an act of retaliation.

It’s now been over two years since Beijing imprisoned two innocent Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, on bogus espionage charges.

Communist China Canada’s relationship with China has soured in recent years, particularly after the CCP arbitrarily detained Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor on Dec. 10, 2018.

“This comes at a time when Canada depends on reporting for updates on illegally-detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, China’s crackdown on the 300,000 Canadians in Hong Kong, and the genocide of Uyghurs,” he added.

Clearly, Schellenberg was never going to get a fair trial and was always going to be used by the CCP as leverage over Ottawa in a political dispute, as has been the case with Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

Canada’s relationship with China has been under a microscope since it detained Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadian citizens, following the 2018 arrest of a Huawei Technologies executive for extradition to the United States on fraud charges

Kovrig and Michael Spavor, for over 600 days; since December 2018.”

Canada has been increasingly affected by Beijing’s strong-arm tactics in recent years, with restrictions placed on some Canadian goods and the detainment of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig after Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver

Two Canadians were incarcerated almost three years ago: Michael Spavor, a businessman who ran a travel and cultural exchange business between China and North Korea, and Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat working for the International Crisis Group, a transnational

However, when the CCP detained two Canadian citizens, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, for more than 1,000 days, it heightened the concerns among Canadians about CCP activities.

Trudeau said Beijing's more aggressive 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

Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

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

After Meng was picked up in Vancouver, China detained Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig and later charged them with spying.

China’s troubling human-rights record, the oppression of the Uyghur minority and the continued detention of two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, are deeply concerning for us,” the statement said.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan recently called China's detention of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor “hostage diplomacy.”

With the release of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor held hostage by communist China, an expert panel says Canada must now look at widening its strategic partnerships, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region, to deal with what it calls Beijing

Commentary Last week, China’s state-run tabloid Global Times ran an article, based on information from an inside source, which laid out the evidence that stood as the basis for sentencing Canadian national Michael Spavor to 11 years on spying charges

A woman holds a sign with photographs of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who have been detained in China since December, 2018, during a rally in support of Hong Kong democracy in Vancouver on Aug. 16, 2020.

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.

Trudeau said Canada has been working with Washington in a bid to convince China to release the two men: businessman Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig.

This was amid heightened awareness of the CCP’s human rights abuses, including at the time the arbitrary incarceration of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

Michael Spavor, its arbitrary imposition of the death penalty on Canadian Robert Schellenberg, and its two-decade imprisonment of Canadian Huseyin Celil.

Who needs a reminder that they include Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, held in terrible conditions? How can anyone at the CPP even go and look at investments in China without wondering whether he or she will be next?

In retaliation, China promptly arrested two Canadians in China, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, and has held them ever since—which has become a major irritant between this nation and China.