Last Tuesday, Beijing told a Canadian diplomat to leave China, why Ottawa, the capital of Canada, had kicked out a Chinese diplomat accused of threatening a Canadian legislator, this situation, friends, does not look like relations between Ottawa and Beijing will become more tense, they have been entangled in a diplomatic dispute for the rest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou for three years now.
It all started in December 2018 when the financial director of Huawei, this telephone company and also the daughter of the founder of the company was arrested in Vancouver, at the request of the United States, Washington at that time accused Meng Wanzhou and Huawei of violating US sanctions. against Iran which caused an escalation in tensions between China and Canada.
Since then, friends, relations between the two countries have experienced ups and downs marked by events such as the arrest and detention of two Canadian citizens in China, Michael Kobrik and Michael Spavor. Shortly after the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, these events unleashed a diplomatic crisis that has led to the imposition of economic sanctions and trade restrictions by both parties, throughout these three years the situation has remained in a state of constant tension.
On the one hand, Canada has faced pressure from its Western allies, especially the United States, to adopt a tougher stance against China, and on the other hand, the Canadian government has had to deal with economic and political retaliation from Beijing, which seeks to obtain the release of and protect Huawei's interests, after she was released, but still the conflict prevailed.
A key company in the development of 5g technology around the world was put in check and this situation leads us to ask ourselves, perhaps the attention between Canada and China has not been recorded, recently let us remember that last Monday Melanie Yoli, the minister of relations Canada's foreign officials announced the expulsion of Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat residing in Toronto, but what led the Trudeau administration to this decision.
Canadian media reported just a week ago that Zhao Wei was involved in a campaign to punish Michael Chung, a conservative Canadian lawmaker, that is to say from the opposition party to Trudo and the family in Hong Kong, harassing her because of her support for a motion that the Canadian made in the Canadian parliament, which called China's treatment of the Huyghurs genocide.
The global mail Canadian newspaper reported in a 2021 document from the Canadian spy agency that revealed that an official from the Chinese Ministry of State Security had sought information about the relatives of this legislator, who could be located in the People's Republic of China to sanction them and to set an example, the secret report stated that the objective was almost certainly, to set that example of this MP and to discourage other Canadian MPs or Parliamentarians from taking positions against the Chinese government.
What is serious here is that an anonymous source has revealed that Chung was a legislator and bye the Chinese official involved in the intimidation effort, and that Justin Trudeau's government knew about it for months and had done nothing, that was the exposure that the Canadian newspaper did, Chung even claimed that it should not have taken the Trudeau administration so long to oust Zhao Wei.
The arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and the ensuing diplomatic dispute between China and Canada has now raised a series of events that make us question the relations between government agencies and foreign interference in a country's internal affairs and the stability in international relations, the relationship between the recent expulsion of this Chinese diplomat in Toronto for being involved in an espionage campaign to punish a conservative Canadian lawmaker for supporting a motion calling China's treatment of a community genocide, has much more accentuated the tensions between the two countries.
Canada's foreign minister said the move was taken to send them a clear message that Canada would not tolerate a form of foreign interference, although it wasn't until this Canadian newspaper exposed the situation that these steps were taken.
This is an issue that should not only concern Canadians, we are seeing more and more reports in the media of Chinese interference in the policies of other countries, a few days ago friends we were talking about the reflections of the Chinese police who are spying in various countries around the world and now we see this note from Canada, repeating these intimidation practices against Canadian parliamentarians just so they don't speak out against their government.
