The tensions between China and Canada because of the affair to the chief financial officer of Huawei Meng Wanzhou, could intensify once again. In the people’s Republic of a second canadian has been arrested. As already Ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig also the Korea expert Michael Spavor is accused of “being involved in activities that endanger national security”. The news Agency China News Service reported referring to the state security Bureau in Dandong on the North Korean border.
The procedure is seen by observers as a possible Chinese retaliation for the arrest of the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei in Canada at the request of the United States. The Top-Manager is Bank fraud in connection with violations of sanctions against Iran are accused of. A judge on Tuesday ruled, Meng Wanzhou spared pending a decision on their extradition to the US on bail from detention. The 46-Year-old, however, must remain under strict conditions and under guard in Vancouver.
Spavor, who organized the Pyongyang visit of Dennis Rodman
The two in China, detained Canadians work for two different non-governmental organizations. The investigation against the Korean experts Spavor had been taken on Monday, it said, according to China News Service, which leaves on the day of the arrest of a close. The wording was almost word for word, with the accusation against the North-East Asia expert of the Brussels-based Crisis Group, Kovrig, was on Monday arrested.
The foreign Ministry in Beijing announced that the organization, analysis, and policy advice on conflict situations, “was not registered in China legally,” and their activities in China illegally. The Chinese government has tightened the control of foreign, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the country in the past few years. Many had to leave China, or operate under difficult legal conditions, to prevent unwanted political activity.
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The now captured Korea order Expert Spavor have Paektu organization for cultural exchange good relations with North Korea, and had organized, among other things, in 2013 and 2014, the visits of the US basketball star Dennis Rodman in Pyongyang. He is one of the few foreigners who were even met with ruler Kim Jong-Un. Canada’s foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland said in Montreal, its government have raised the case with the Chinese authorities. (dpa)
