Increasing number of foreigners avoid travel to China due to fear of detention: Report ANI | Updated: Mar 12, 2021 20:00 IST
Washington [US], March 12 (ANI): Over a dozen academics, NGO workers and media professionals said they were unwilling to travel to China after the detention of foreigners in the country instilled fear in some people.
In a CNN report, Jenni Marsh writes that as President Xi Jinping breeds a culture of nationalism and forges increasingly hostile relations with Western governments, some fear being a target of a possible diplomatic spat between their government and Beijing.
Several people pointed to the detention of two Canadians in China in December 2018 - Micheal Kovrig, an NGO worker and Michael Spavor, who organised trips to North Korea - after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver on charges filed in the US.
Foreigners avoiding travel to China: Report
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Terry Glavin: Genocide vote puts Justin Trudeau and his cabinet to shame The motion is non-binding, but that’s only because Trudeau and his cabinet ministers, who abstained from the vote en masse, have decided they won’t be bound by it
Author of the article: Terry Glavin
Publishing date: Feb 24, 2021 • February 24, 2021 • 6 minute read • Protesters gather outside the Parliament buildings in Ottawa on Feb. 22, as the House prepared to vote on an Opposition motion calling on Canada to recognize China s actions against ethnic Muslim Uighurs as genocide. Photo by Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has finally come up against the House of Commons in a long-postponed 266-0 revolt against his signature “golden decade” entente with the Chinese Communist Party, the prime minister’s diehard fan base should take no consolation in the procedural classification of the vote as “non-binding.”
Glavin: On China s genocide, Canada s House of Commons had to take matters into its own hands Monday’s motion declared that the Xi Jinping regime in Beijing is carrying out a real-life, real-word, real-time genocide in Xinjiang. It s non-binding, but that’s only because Trudeau and his cabinet ministers have decided they won’t be bound by it.
Author of the article: Terry Glavin
Publishing date: Feb 24, 2021 • February 25, 2021 • 5 minute read • A security person stands near the Olympic flags during a ceremony to mark the arrival of the Olympic flag and start of the flag tour for the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 at a section of the Great Wall of China in Beijing back in 2018. Photo by Ng Han Guan /The Associated Press
Communist China is Not Our Friend
Ted Falk, Author
Last week marked a grim anniversary.
It was two years ago that Chinese authorities arbitrarily detained two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Micheal Kovrig, in retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou.
Meng’s father is the founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei. She was arrested in Vancouver, as part of our extradition treaty with the United States, on fraud charges related to her business dealings with Iran.
Due to her family’s political connections, Chinese authorities were quick to retaliate, banning Canadian pork and canola imports, as well as engaging in hostage diplomacy with the two Michaels.
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