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

By contrast, China’s proceedings against Spavor and Kovrig were clearly in retaliation for the arrest in 2018 of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer.

China launched a series of retaliatory measures against Canada after Canadian authorities arrested Huawei chief financial officer, and daughter of the company's founder, Meng Wanzhou, on a U.S. extradition request in December 2018.

Britain’s high court on Friday blocked Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s bid to access British bank HSBC’s internal documents relating to U.S. fraud allegations against its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.

That happened not long after Canadian police detained Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications equipment titan Huawei Technologies Co Ltd., on a U.S. warrant.

The two Canadians' detention is widely regarded as Beijing's "hostage diplomacy" in retaliation for Ottawa's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition request over fraud.

VANCOUVER—The Supreme Court of British Columbia has dismissed an application for a publication ban from Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on new evidence that her legal team wants to introduce in her fight against extradition to the United States

This screen grab made from a video released on Sept. 25, 2021, by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV shows Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou receiving flowers after she arrived following her release, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

Canada and other countries maintain Kovrig and Spavor were arbitrarily detained in China in 2018 in retaliation for the RCMP's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a United States extradition warrant.

VANCOUVER—The actions of RCMP and Canadian border officers in the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou are expected to be at the centre of her extradition case today as it resumes in B.C. Supreme Court.

Manthorpe said Beijing's "kidnapping" of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in apparent retaliation for Canada's detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018 "sent a clear message in itself: that the CCP cares more about the security of

Meanwhile, the December 2018 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou—Ren’s daughter—in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition order over charges including bank fraud marked a turning point in Canada-China relations, straining diplomatic ties ever since.

Huawei's Trade with Iran via Hong Kong As early as December 2018, Hong Kong was implicated in the case of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei.

Spavor, along with Michael Kovrig, were released a week ago after the United States dropped its prosecution of Chinese high−tech executive Meng Wanzhou.

The CCP also accused HSBC of handing over information to U.S. authorities in the Meng Wanzhou case (the Huawei CFO who was held for a period in Canada).

She pointed out that if Canada took action, the CCP would likely resort to economic, consular, and diplomatic threats, similar to how they responded to the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a Huawei executive, by detaining two Canadians in 2018.

Beijing has also taken on a more hostile stance toward Canada in recent years, after Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition request.

McCallum was eventually removed from his post in 2019 over providing legal arguments to Chinese state-owned media members in defence of arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on her way to a court appearance in Vancouver, Canada on Jan. 17, 2020.

“While the Chinese executive [Meng Wanzhou] spends her time in a seven-bedroom mansion in Vancouver, Michael Kovrig has been confined to an isolated small cell in Beijing,” Heusgen said.

The government documents reveal that Global Affairs had warned DND against cancelling military engagements with China, saying it could be seen as a “retaliatory move related to the Meng Wanzhou case.”

The men, known as “two Michaels,” were detained days after Canadian authorities arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition request.

But his fortunes became far more perilous 11 days later, on Dec. 1, 2018, when Meng was arrested at Vancouver International Airport. Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves home to attend her extradition hearing at B.C.

Republican senators have decried the Chinese regime’s success in its bid at “hostage diplomacy” after the release of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on Sept. 24.

At the time, the company had been pushing for the release of Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder Ren Zhenfei, who had been detained in Canada on fraud charges for business dealings with Iran that allegedly evaded U.S

The two were arbitrarily arrested in December 2018 and detained by Chinese authorities for over 1,000 days, in a move widely regarded as retaliation for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition request involving fraud charges

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in December 2018 in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on an extradition request from the United States.

executive Meng Wanzhou, which then saw two Canadians who were detained in China released shortly after, has prompted many to question whether there was a prisoner swap agreement secretly negotiated between Washington and Beijing.

Under that deal, Beijing released two Canadian citizens in exchange for the United States giving up an extradition request for Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei, who had been detained in Canada.

The two men were released in September after over 1,000 days in detention in what was widely seen as Beijing’s retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on U.S. extradition charges—a saga that ended when the United States abandoned