"The legal rights of the two Canadians are being safeguarded," Lu told reporters at a daily briefing. Despite the escalating frictions resulting from the detentions, trade talks between Beijing and the Trump administration remain ongoing. "We are working very hard to ascertain his whereabouts and we continue to raise this with the Chinese government." Spavor runs tours of North Korea along with sports, business and other exchanges through his company, Paektu Cultural Exchange. "If Canada extradites Meng to the U.S., China's revenge will be far worse than detaining a Canadian," said Hu Xijin, speaking in English.

Source: ABC News December 13, 2018 06:18 UTC