Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Li, at the St. Regis Hotel, in Rome, Tuesday, August 25. Her arrest enraged Beijing, which calls it a political move aimed at constraining China’s rise as a global technology power. Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois-Philippe Champagne urged Beijing to release the two Canadians during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Rome on Tuesday. Since her detention, China has also sentenced four Canadians convicted on drug charges to death, an unusually high number for foreign suspects held in China. “The offering of Meng Wanzhou in exchange for Kovrig and Spavor is the only answer,” Pardy wrote in the opinion piece.-AP

Source: The Standard August 26, 2020 10:41 UTC