It comes after China expelled a Canadian diplomat in response to Ottawa’s decision to eject a Chinese envoy. Read more at straitstimes.com.
by May 13 in response to what it called Ottawa’s “unreasonable actions”.
“We understand there is retaliation, but we will not be intimidated, we will continue to do everything necessary to keep Canadians protected from foreign interference,” Mr Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa.and Beijing’s subsequent arrest of two Canadians on spying charges. All three were freed in 2021.Last year, Beijing lifted a three-year ban on imports of canola, Canada’s largest crop, from trading companies Richardson International and Viterra.
China “took a very measured response,” Mr Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said in an interview broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.Mr Saint-Jacques also said he does not expect China to resort to economic sanctions because Beijing is trying to reassure foreign companies that they can work there after strict Covid-19 restrictions were dropped.
Beijing is conducting a “charm offensive convince foreign enterprises to come back to China to invest,” Mr Saint-Jacques added. “So putting sanctions on Canada at this stage would have sent a very bad message to foreign companies.” REUTERS
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