News about Meng Wanzhou

Michael Kovrig, 52, was detained in December 2018 on espionage charges in apparent retaliation for Canada 's arrest of Huawei 's Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou.

Michael Kovrig, 52, was detained in December 2018 on espionage charges in apparent retaliation for Canada 's arrest of Huawei 's Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou. She was seized on a US extradition request. Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat, had been working as an adviser and analyst for the International Crisis Group at the time, working out of the group's headquarters in Hong Kong . He was apprehended in Beijing after having dinner with his then-pregnant wife, who went on to give birth during his first five months in solitary confinement. Three years removed from his release as part of a deal for the release of Wanzhou, he told CTV News: 'They grabbed me and in front of my pregnant girlfriend, dragged me into a black SUV, stuffed me into the back seat, put a set of handcuffs on me.'

Both leaders were caught on camera discussing the Indonesian Prime Minister's tense discussion on the sidelines of the world summit, with Xi tearing into the Canadian Prime Minister. When he confronted Trudeau about how the contents of their meeting, which was held yesterday, had been leaked to the public by Canadian government sources, Xi became visibly ill. Trudeau had raised'serious questions' over suspected domestic meddling by China during his first talks with Xi in more than three years, according to the outlet.