China formally charged with espionage two Canadians detained since December 2018 in the name of national security, in a case that has poisoned the diplomatic relations between Beijing and Ottawa.
Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat previously stationed in Beijing, as well as the consultant and businessman Michael Spavor, a specialist on North Korea, are accused spy
and to have leaking State secrets
said this on Friday, June 19 the Prosecutor in two brief releases.
The two men had been arrested in December 2018 a few days after the arrest in Canada, at the request of the american justice, the financial director of the chinese giant telecom Huawei Meng Wanzhou.
Ms. Meng, the daughter of the founder of Huawei, is accused by the United States to have bypassed the us sanctions against Iran. His arrest by the end of 2018 has opened a diplomatic crisis without precedent between Ottawa and Beijing.
A measure of reprisal
The procedure for the two Canadians is widely perceived in the West as a retaliation. China denies firmly, claiming to be a State of law
– even if the justice remains under the influence of the chinese communist Party (CCP).
But the country processes most of the time with a high-opacity cases involving national security.
Beijing has several times hinted that the release of Meng Wanzhou was a condition sine qua non an improvement of its relations with Ottawa.
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