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外交部回应一加拿大公民在山东烟台被捕：涉毒，案件正在侦办
2019-07-15 16:12
7月15日，外交部发言人耿爽主持例行记者会。有记者就加拿大公民在山东烟台被捕一事提问。
耿爽回应，据我了解，山东省公安机关近日查获一起外籍留学生涉毒案，涉案人员中有一名加拿大公民，目前案件正在侦办当中。公安机关已及时向相关国家的驻华使馆进行了领事通报，并将安排使馆人员探视，中方依法保障当事人正当权益。此案与江苏省公安机关近日查获的外籍人员涉毒案无关。返回搜狐，查看更多
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Detention of Canadian in China likely unrelated to arrests of foreign teachers, students
Last week, Chinese authorities in Xuzhou announced they had arrested 19 people — including seven foreign teachers and nine foreign students — on suspicion of drug use
In this file photo taken on December 5, 2017 shows Canadian and Chinese flags taken prior to a meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and China's President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing.FRED DUFOUR / POOL / AFP
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A Canadian has been detained in eastern China, a government official confirmed Sunday, amid a deepening diplomatic row between Beijing and Ottawa.
But the reason for the arrest remained a mystery.
“Global Affairs Canada is aware of the detention of a Canadian citizen in Yantai, China,” a Global Affairs Canada spokesman said in an email.
“Canadian officials are providing consular assistance to the Canadian citizen.”
The spokesman would not provide any additional information, including the identity of the Canadian or whether the detention might be related to the recent arrests of more than a dozen foreigners in another part of eastern China.
Last week, Chinese authorities in Xuzhou, about 600 kilometres southwest of Yantai, announced they had arrested 19 people — including seven foreign teachers and nine foreign students — on suspicion of drug use.
Adam Bickelman, a spokesman for EF Education First, a Swiss-based company that organizes study abroad trips and cultural exchanges, confirmed in an email Sunday that the seven teachers worked for the company and that the company was taking the allegations very seriously and co-operating with authorities. He declined to provide a list of the teachers’ nationalities.
However, Bickelman said it did not appear the arrest of the Canadian was linked to the arrest of the foreigners in Xuzhou.
“My understanding is that the two incidents are unrelated,” he wrote.
The British embassy did confirm that four of its citizens were among the teachers and students arrested in Xuzhou, according to The Associated Press.
The arrest of the Canadian comes at a time of worsening diplomatic relations between Canada and China.
It all started last December when Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei, was arrested in Vancouver on a warrant issued by the United States, where she faces fraud charges. Meng remains under house arrest.
Shortly after Meng’s arrest, China, in what was seen widely as a retaliatory move, detained two Canadians — businessman Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig — on allegations of spying. Canada called their detentions “arbitrary.”
In recent months, the feud has escalated with China suspending imports of Canadian canola oil and meat products.
In a provocative online column published last week, J. Michael Cole, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, wrote that Ottawa now “needs to contend with the possibility of interference by Beijing” in the upcoming federal election and that “vigilance will be key.”
The Chinese regime, he wrote, likely regards the election as “an opportunity to secure Meng’s release and to engineer the election of a future government that is more to its liking.”
Don’t be surprised, Cole wrote, to see the Chinese Communist Party target other export-reliant parts of the country, “with the aim of alienating those ridings from the current government in Ottawa.”
Meanwhile, a travel advisory updated last month on the Canadian government’s website warns travellers to exercise a “high degree of caution” in China “due to the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws.”
The website states that it is common for people to be detained for lengthy periods before charges are laid and that some defence lawyers may be reluctant to represent foreigners.
“Chinese authorities may define certain behaviours and activities as ‘endangering national security’ that would not be considered as such in Canada,” the website says.
Penalties for possession, use or trafficking of illegal drugs, it adds, are “strict and include the death penalty.”
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China Arrests Another Canadian, Adding to Diplomatic Tensions
By Jane Perlez
BEIJING — China has detained another Canadian citizen, the authorities in Canada have said, adding to the high tensions between the two countries’ governments.
The person, who was not identified by the Canadians, was arrested this past week in the eastern Chinese city of Yantai, according to Global Affairs Canada, the country’s foreign ministry. The Canadian being held in custody has received consular services, the ministry said on Saturday.
The two countries have been at odds since December, when China arrested two Canadians — a former diplomat and a businessman — who were later charged with espionage.
Their arrests are believed to have been in retaliation for the arrest by Canada that same month of a senior executive at Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant that the United States has declared a security threat. Chinese courts have also sentenced two other Canadians to death on drug-related charges.
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The detention of the Canadian last week occurred at about the same time as the arrest of a number of foreign teachers and students on drug charges in the city of Xuzhou, also in eastern China.
At least four of the 16 arrested in Xuzhou were British teachers, according to the British Embassy in Beijing.
The arrest of the Canadian could be a drug case related to the other arrests or it could have been a way for China to send another signal to Canada that it wants the Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, to be released, according to a Canadian former official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the cases.
Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive at the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, leaving her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, in May. She was arrested by the Canadian authorities in December.CreditLindsey Wasson/Reuters
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Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive at the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, leaving her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, in May. She was arrested by the Canadian authorities in December.CreditLindsey Wasson/Reuters
Canada arrested Ms. Meng at the behest of the Trump administration after Washington requested her arrest and extradition on the grounds that she was responsible for Huawei violating economic sanctions against Iran.
Ms. Meng, who owns two multimillion-dollar mansions in Vancouver, British Columbia, is on bail and living in one of them while she awaits trial in January. She is seen as corporate royalty in China, and her arrest has been interpreted among the Chinese elite as a signal that the government is unable to protect its most valued people as they travel the globe.
The arrests of the Canadian and of the foreign students and teachers last week come as American business executives have expressed alarm about their safety traveling in China. Washington has warned Americans that the Chinese authorities have blocked a number of Americans from leaving the country, a practice known as exit bans.
Last month, a Chinese-American executive at Koch Industries was interrogated for multiple days in southern China, with the authorities allowing him to leave only after the State Department intervened.
Since Ms. Meng’s arrest, the Chinese government has ratcheted up the pressure on Canada, halting imports of Canadian canola oil and beef. Officials have been unusually brittle in expressing disdain for the country.
“We hope that the Canadian side will not be too naïve,” Geng Shuang, a spokesman at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said this month.
“Canada shouldn’t naïvely think that gathering so-called allies to put pressure on China will work,” he said.
Mr. Geng was referring to Canadian officials asking Washington for help in the release of the former diplomat, Michael Kovrig, and the businessman, Michael Spavor. Both men have been held in secret detention sites, without visits from lawyers or family members.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada visited the White House in June, he said that President Trump had pledged to raise the detention of Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor when he met with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, in Japan at the end of that month. It is not known whether Mr. Trump did so.
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Another Canadian Citizen Has Been Arrested in China
Protesters hold signs calling for the release of Canadian citizens outside British Columbia Superior Court in Vancouver, Canada on March 6, 2019.
Karen Ducey—Getty Images
By Amy Gunia
1:11 AM EDT
Chinese authorities detained another Canadian citizen last week in the eastern city of Yantai, further raising diplomatic tensions between the two nations.
Canada’s foreign ministry confirmed that the unnamed person is receiving consular services, according to the New York Times.
Relations between the countries have been strained since two Canadians were detained in China in December. Their arrest was believed to be a retaliatory move for the arrest of Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wangzhou, in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities over alleged Iran sanctions violations.
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The Canadians, ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor, have been charged with espionage.
The latest arrest happened around the same time that China detained several foreign students and teachers on drug-related charges in the eastern Chinese city of Xuzhou. At least four are Britons, according to the Times.
It is unclear if last week’s detention is related to the drug case, or was meant to put pressure on Canada. In addition to arresting Canadian citizens, China has also responded with economic pressure. Imports of Canadian beef and canola oil were halted after Meng’s arrest, according to the Times.
Canada is not the only nation whose citizens are being targeted by Beijing’s detainee diplomacy. Last month, a Chinese-American executive at Koch Industries was held and questioned for several days. The State Department has issued a warning about China’s “exit bans” against dual-national citizens.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked President Donald Trump to discuss the release of Kovrig and Spavor with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, when he met Xi at the G20 Summit in late June, reports the Times. It is not known if Trump raised the issue with Xi.
“We hope that the Canadian side will not be too naïve,” Geng Shuang, a spokesman at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in response to Trudeau’s request to Trump, according to the Times. “Canada shouldn’t naïvely think that gathering so-called allies to put pressure on China will work.”
外交部回应一加拿大公民在山东烟台被捕：涉毒，案件正在侦办
2019-07-15 16:12
7月15日，外交部发言人耿爽主持例行记者会。有记者就加拿大公民在山东烟台被捕一事提问。
耿爽回应，据我了解，山东省公安机关近日查获一起外籍留学生涉毒案，涉案人员中有一名加拿大公民，目前案件正在侦办当中。公安机关已及时向相关国家的驻华使馆进行了领事通报，并将安排使馆人员探视，中方依法保障当事人正当权益。此案与江苏省公安机关近日查获的外籍人员涉毒案无关。返回搜狐，查看更多
https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...lated-to-arrests-of-foreign-teachers-students
Detention of Canadian in China likely unrelated to arrests of foreign teachers, students
Last week, Chinese authorities in Xuzhou announced they had arrested 19 people — including seven foreign teachers and nine foreign students — on suspicion of drug use
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July 14, 2019
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More A Canadian has been detained in eastern China, a government official confirmed Sunday, amid a deepening diplomatic row between Beijing and Ottawa.
But the reason for the arrest remained a mystery.
“Global Affairs Canada is aware of the detention of a Canadian citizen in Yantai, China,” a Global Affairs Canada spokesman said in an email.
“Canadian officials are providing consular assistance to the Canadian citizen.”
The spokesman would not provide any additional information, including the identity of the Canadian or whether the detention might be related to the recent arrests of more than a dozen foreigners in another part of eastern China.
Last week, Chinese authorities in Xuzhou, about 600 kilometres southwest of Yantai, announced they had arrested 19 people — including seven foreign teachers and nine foreign students — on suspicion of drug use.
Adam Bickelman, a spokesman for EF Education First, a Swiss-based company that organizes study abroad trips and cultural exchanges, confirmed in an email Sunday that the seven teachers worked for the company and that the company was taking the allegations very seriously and co-operating with authorities. He declined to provide a list of the teachers’ nationalities.
However, Bickelman said it did not appear the arrest of the Canadian was linked to the arrest of the foreigners in Xuzhou.
“My understanding is that the two incidents are unrelated,” he wrote.
Chinese authorities may define certain behaviours and activities as 'endangering national security' that would not be considered as such in Canada
The British embassy did confirm that four of its citizens were among the teachers and students arrested in Xuzhou, according to The Associated Press.
The arrest of the Canadian comes at a time of worsening diplomatic relations between Canada and China.
It all started last December when Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei, was arrested in Vancouver on a warrant issued by the United States, where she faces fraud charges. Meng remains under house arrest.
Shortly after Meng’s arrest, China, in what was seen widely as a retaliatory move, detained two Canadians — businessman Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig — on allegations of spying. Canada called their detentions “arbitrary.”
In recent months, the feud has escalated with China suspending imports of Canadian canola oil and meat products.
In a provocative online column published last week, J. Michael Cole, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, wrote that Ottawa now “needs to contend with the possibility of interference by Beijing” in the upcoming federal election and that “vigilance will be key.”
The Chinese regime, he wrote, likely regards the election as “an opportunity to secure Meng’s release and to engineer the election of a future government that is more to its liking.”
Don’t be surprised, Cole wrote, to see the Chinese Communist Party target other export-reliant parts of the country, “with the aim of alienating those ridings from the current government in Ottawa.”
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Meanwhile, a travel advisory updated last month on the Canadian government’s website warns travellers to exercise a “high degree of caution” in China “due to the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws.”
The website states that it is common for people to be detained for lengthy periods before charges are laid and that some defence lawyers may be reluctant to represent foreigners.
“Chinese authorities may define certain behaviours and activities as ‘endangering national security’ that would not be considered as such in Canada,” the website says.
Penalties for possession, use or trafficking of illegal drugs, it adds, are “strict and include the death penalty.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/world/asia/china-canadian-arrested.html
China Arrests Another Canadian, Adding to Diplomatic Tensions
By Jane Perlez
- July 14, 2019
BEIJING — China has detained another Canadian citizen, the authorities in Canada have said, adding to the high tensions between the two countries’ governments.
The person, who was not identified by the Canadians, was arrested this past week in the eastern Chinese city of Yantai, according to Global Affairs Canada, the country’s foreign ministry. The Canadian being held in custody has received consular services, the ministry said on Saturday.
The two countries have been at odds since December, when China arrested two Canadians — a former diplomat and a businessman — who were later charged with espionage.
Their arrests are believed to have been in retaliation for the arrest by Canada that same month of a senior executive at Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant that the United States has declared a security threat. Chinese courts have also sentenced two other Canadians to death on drug-related charges.
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The detention of the Canadian last week occurred at about the same time as the arrest of a number of foreign teachers and students on drug charges in the city of Xuzhou, also in eastern China.
At least four of the 16 arrested in Xuzhou were British teachers, according to the British Embassy in Beijing.
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The arrest of the Canadian could be a drug case related to the other arrests or it could have been a way for China to send another signal to Canada that it wants the Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, to be released, according to a Canadian former official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the cases.
Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive at the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, leaving her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, in May. She was arrested by the Canadian authorities in December.CreditLindsey Wasson/Reuters
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Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive at the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, leaving her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, in May. She was arrested by the Canadian authorities in December.CreditLindsey Wasson/Reuters
Canada arrested Ms. Meng at the behest of the Trump administration after Washington requested her arrest and extradition on the grounds that she was responsible for Huawei violating economic sanctions against Iran.
Ms. Meng, who owns two multimillion-dollar mansions in Vancouver, British Columbia, is on bail and living in one of them while she awaits trial in January. She is seen as corporate royalty in China, and her arrest has been interpreted among the Chinese elite as a signal that the government is unable to protect its most valued people as they travel the globe.
The arrests of the Canadian and of the foreign students and teachers last week come as American business executives have expressed alarm about their safety traveling in China. Washington has warned Americans that the Chinese authorities have blocked a number of Americans from leaving the country, a practice known as exit bans.
Last month, a Chinese-American executive at Koch Industries was interrogated for multiple days in southern China, with the authorities allowing him to leave only after the State Department intervened.
Since Ms. Meng’s arrest, the Chinese government has ratcheted up the pressure on Canada, halting imports of Canadian canola oil and beef. Officials have been unusually brittle in expressing disdain for the country.
“We hope that the Canadian side will not be too naïve,” Geng Shuang, a spokesman at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said this month.
“Canada shouldn’t naïvely think that gathering so-called allies to put pressure on China will work,” he said.
Mr. Geng was referring to Canadian officials asking Washington for help in the release of the former diplomat, Michael Kovrig, and the businessman, Michael Spavor. Both men have been held in secret detention sites, without visits from lawyers or family members.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada visited the White House in June, he said that President Trump had pledged to raise the detention of Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor when he met with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, in Japan at the end of that month. It is not known whether Mr. Trump did so.
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A version of this article appears in print on July 15, 2019, Section A, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: An Arrest In China Raises Ire In Canada. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Another Canadian Citizen Has Been Arrested in China
Protesters hold signs calling for the release of Canadian citizens outside British Columbia Superior Court in Vancouver, Canada on March 6, 2019.
Karen Ducey—Getty Images
By Amy Gunia
1:11 AM EDT
Chinese authorities detained another Canadian citizen last week in the eastern city of Yantai, further raising diplomatic tensions between the two nations.
Canada’s foreign ministry confirmed that the unnamed person is receiving consular services, according to the New York Times.
Relations between the countries have been strained since two Canadians were detained in China in December. Their arrest was believed to be a retaliatory move for the arrest of Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wangzhou, in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities over alleged Iran sanctions violations.
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The Canadians, ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor, have been charged with espionage.
The latest arrest happened around the same time that China detained several foreign students and teachers on drug-related charges in the eastern Chinese city of Xuzhou. At least four are Britons, according to the Times.
It is unclear if last week’s detention is related to the drug case, or was meant to put pressure on Canada. In addition to arresting Canadian citizens, China has also responded with economic pressure. Imports of Canadian beef and canola oil were halted after Meng’s arrest, according to the Times.
Canada is not the only nation whose citizens are being targeted by Beijing’s detainee diplomacy. Last month, a Chinese-American executive at Koch Industries was held and questioned for several days. The State Department has issued a warning about China’s “exit bans” against dual-national citizens.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked President Donald Trump to discuss the release of Kovrig and Spavor with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, when he met Xi at the G20 Summit in late June, reports the Times. It is not known if Trump raised the issue with Xi.
“We hope that the Canadian side will not be too naïve,” Geng Shuang, a spokesman at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in response to Trudeau’s request to Trump, according to the Times. “Canada shouldn’t naïvely think that gathering so-called allies to put pressure on China will work.”
