{"id":201017,"date":"2019-12-25T07:29:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/pompeo-backs-canada-on-coercive-detentions-of-canadians-in-china.html"},"modified":"2019-12-25T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:29:28","slug":"pompeo-backs-canada-on-coercive-detentions-of-canadians-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/pompeo-backs-canada-on-coercive-detentions-of-canadians-in-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo backs Canada on ‘coercive detentions’ of Canadians in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says his country is sticking with Canada in fighting what he calls China’s “coercive detentions of Canadian citizens.”<\/p>\n

Pompeo and Foreign Affairs Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne spoke Monday about a range of global concerns, including China, the ongoing crisis in Venezuela\u00a0and the United States’ upcoming presidency of the G7 group of countries with large economies.<\/p>\n

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Champagne said it was “a very productive call.”<\/p>\n

Relations strained<\/h2>\n

Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor were picked up days after Canada arrested Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant related to charges of bank fraud.<\/p>\n

Canada has had no luck so far in pressing for their release.<\/p>\n

“The United States stands with Canada in calling on Beijing for the immediate release of the two men and rejects the use of these unjustified detentions to coerce Canada,” said a statement from Morgan Ortagus, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n

Under President Donald Trump, the United States and China have been in a deepening spiral of tariffs and counter-tariffs on each other’s goods, which Trump has said he hopes will end with a major new trade deal that will see China import more American products.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he’s asked the U.S. not to sign a new trade agreement with Beijing until the Canadians are freed.<\/p>\n

War of words<\/h2>\n

China’s attitude toward the United States has grown increasingly belligerent. In a regular news conference at China’s foreign ministry this week, spokesman Geng Shuang took aim at the U.S. over several issues, including the weaponization of space and humanitarian aid in Syria.<\/p>\n

For instance, Pompeo had criticized Russia and China for voting against a UN Security Council resolution on Syria \u2014\u00a0a move Champagne called disappointing in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Geng said the crisis in Syria is ultimately the Americans’ fault.<\/p>\n

“The world sees clearly who keeps lying with hearts full of hypocrisy and blood on their hands,” Geng said, according to a transcript posted in English on the foreign-ministry website. “It is they who should repent.”<\/p>\n

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