However, such cases are almost always predetermined in China, and Beijing is seen as using Kovrig and Spavor as leverage to obtain the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested at the request of the U.S. at the airport in Vancouver in

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou arrives with a security detail at the British Columbia Supreme Court, in Vancouver, Canada, on March 6, 2019.

Justice Department allowed Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of China’s telecom giant Huawei who was in Canada fighting extradition to the United States for a federal fraud case, to go back to China.

“We once again urge the Canadian side to meet China halfway, take measures to correct mistakes, immediately and properly resolve the Meng Wanzhou incident and make concrete efforts to bring China-Canada relations back on the right track,” said spokesperson

As a small and outspoken country, Sweden and its companies in China—like Canada and its company Canada Goose during and after the Meng Wanzhou crisis—were relatively easy targets for Beijing’s retaliation.

On the same day, Trudeau said Canada wouldn’t give in to Beijing’s pressure on the case of Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive arrested in Canada on a U.S. extradition request.

The two countries’ relationship went downhill after the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Chinese telecom company Huawei, in December 2018.

During this briefing, he praised the CCP's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and called on Canada to release Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who had been arrested in Canada due to a U.S. extradition request on fraud charges.

The Meng Case Xie said one of the main factors behind Sun's case dragging on for over three years before sentencing, and the very long prison sentence handed down June 30, is the case of Meng Wanzhou.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken a hard line against Canada following the 2018 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition request.

Kovrig and Spavor have been arbitrarily detained in a Chinese prison on baseless charges since December 2018, following the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant.

Canadians Michael Spavor (L) and Michael Kovrig have been detained in China since shortly after Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver in December 2018.

They have been jailed since December 2018, soon after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies and the daughter of Ren Zhengfi, the founder of the Chinese telecom giant.

Wanzhou to the United States, a key Huawei figure wanted for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.

Most Canadians are familiar with the nightmares endured by Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the two Michaels imprisoned for almost three years because they were unlucky enough to be in China when Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver.

Huawei's Financial Chief Meng Wanzhou leaves her family home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on May 8, 2019.

They were swept up more than two years ago in an apparent act of retaliation for Canada agreeing to arrest and detain Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to await extradition south of the border, where she's accused of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran.

Wanzhou nine days earlier at the request of the United States.

Relations between China and Canada took a hit last December after Vancouver police detained Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co, on a U.S. arrest warrant.

The home of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Sept. 23, 2019.

Several actions were taken during the past few years, including Canada’s house arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, international retailers’ boycott of Xinjiang-harvested cotton, U.S. sanctions and trade restrictions affecting Chinese state-linked companies

Given that the basic facts of lying on official documents and failing to report income have been applied to a variety of high-profile individuals—from ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to Huawei royalty Meng Wanzhou—there is a clear pattern of using

A decision on a key legal aspect of the trial over whether Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou can be extradited to the United States from Canada will be announced May 27, the British Columbia Supreme Court said on Thursday.

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.

Both were arbitrarily detained in China in December 2018, just days after Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO, 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 of

Huawei chief executive officer Meng Wanzhou attends an event in Moscow on Oct. 2, 2014.

On Sept. 24, they were released by Beijing immediately after Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was released from Canadian custody, following U.S. prosecutors' decision to end the extradition request for her and to put the prosecution on hold

Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were arrested in late 2018 on state security charges, soon after Canadian police detained Huawei Technologies Co's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on a U.S. warrant.

Their arrests came days after Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a U.S. extradition warrant.

Relations between Canada and China have been severely strained since the RCMP arrested Chinese high-tech scion Meng Wanzhou on an American extradition warrant in December 2018.