In 2019, McCallum was forced to resign his post at the request of the Trudeau government after publicly providing legal arguments in defence of the arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

The Indo-Pacific Strategy was written after a breakdown in relations with China occurred in late 2018, when Canada executed a U.S. extradition warrant for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Diplomatic relations between the countries have been strained since 2018, when Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada and China responded by detaining Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

They were released in 2021 when Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, was released after being arrested in Canada.

Beijing-Ottawa relations began to deteriorate in 2018, when China arbitrarily detained Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in apparent retaliation for the detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver, following a U.S. extradition request

This followed the arrest of Chinese tech company Huawei’s senior executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver a few months earlier. The Canadian Press contributed to this report.

That film, also inspired by true events, delves into the arrest of "mega hi-tech Chinese heiress" and CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada, which sparked a political firestorm involving the United States, China, and Canada. From NTD News

However, Trudeau’s attempts at closer ties unravelled after Canada executed a U.S. extradition warrant for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was accused of fraud, in 2018.

Relations with Beijing deteriorated in 2018, when the RCMP arrested chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou of the Chinese multinational technology company Huawei in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant related to fraud charges.

In 2019, the DOJ unsealed two indictments against Huawei, its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, and several of the company’s subsidiaries.

Diplomatic relations between the countries had been deteriorating since 2018, when China arbitrarily detained Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in apparent retaliation for the detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S.

In one such case in 2019, it imposed a three-year ban on Canadian canola imports following the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant.

The move was seen as Beijing's response to the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Canada 10 days earlier. The stand-off ended only after the pair had been held for 1,019 days.

Besides trade tensions, diplomatic relations have also been deteriorating since 2018, following China’s arbitrary detention of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in apparent retaliation for the detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver

This came in apparent retaliation to Canada in late 2018 executing a U.S. extradition warrant on Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was accused of fraud.

The film is a thematic sequel to “Claws of the Red Dragon,” a fictional story based on real events exploring the tensions between Canada and China after the December 2018 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver, following a U.S. extradition

Beijing has on various occasions targeted the canola industry during periods of diplomatic or trade tension with Ottawa, including in 2019 when it imposed a three-year ban on Canadian canola imports following the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou

Aside from trade, relations between the two countries soured in late 2018, when Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested by the RCMP in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition request for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.

The decision to sentence Schellenberg to death in early 2019 came shortly after Canada had arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant in December 2018.

Canada and China signed a strategic partnership in 2005, but relations have worsened in recent years, reaching a low point with China's 2018 detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in

Their arrests were widely seen as retaliation for the arrest in Vancouver of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant.

For instance, it was Iranian transactions that Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou admitted to hiding when she allegedly engaged in bank fraud with U.S. banks.

Beijing-Ottawa relations began to deteriorate in 2018, when China arbitrarily detained Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in apparent retaliation for the detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver, following a U.S. extradition request

The two nations have clashed since the detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018, and Beijing’s subsequent arrest of two Canadians on espionage charges.

Supreme Court where Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was attending a hearing, in Vancouver, Canada, on Jan. 21, 2020.

Canada–China relations were frozen in late 2018 when Canada executed a U.S. extradition warrant for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, accused of fraud.

Prior to that, China had taken two Canadian citizens prisoner in retaliation for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition request in late 2018.

Other such acts include the arrest of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and banning Canadian agricultural imports in retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition request in 2018.

China previously imposed a three-year ban on Canadian canola following the diplomatic rift over Canada's arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei.

Kovrig was arbitrarily detained in China, along with Canadian citizen Michael Spavor, in apparent retaliation after Canada executed a U.S. extradition warrant in late 2018 for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and arrested her in Vancouver.