China says pest concerns justify ban on Canadian canola

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 23:10:47 +0000

China says pest concerns justify ban on Canadian canola

China said Wednesday that it is blocking some imports of the agricultural product canola from Canada because of fears of insect infestation.

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China revokes Canadian canola permit as dispute escalates

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 23:54:12 +0000

One of Canada’s largest grain processors has been blocked from exporting canola to China in what could be a retaliation for the arrest of an executive from Chinese tech giant Huawei.

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Canada allows extradition case against Huawei CFO to proceed

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:38:34 +0000

Canada allows extradition case against Huawei CFO to proceed

TORONTO — Canada said Friday it will allow the U.S. extradition case against Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to proceed.

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China tells US to stop ‘unreasonable crackdown’ on Huawei

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:30:06 +0000

BEIJING – China’s government called on Washington on Tuesday to “stop the unreasonable crackdown” on Huawei following the tech giant’s indictment in the U.S. on charges of stealing technology and violating sanctions on Iran.

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Trudeau sacks Canadian envoy to China after Huawei controversy

Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:33:11 +0000

Trudeau sacks Canadian envoy to China after Huawei controversy

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had sought and accepted the resignation of Ottawa’s ambassador to China.

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Huawei Executive Has ‘Strong’ Case Against Extradition Thanks to Donald Trump, Canadian Diplomat to China Says

Credit to Author: Tamara Khandaker| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:59:48 +0000

Canada’s ambassador to China John McCallum says Meng Wanzhou can use Donald Trump’s political involvement in her case to fight extradition, along with two other legal arguments.

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Canada’s detention of Huawei exec ‘vile in nature,’ China says

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 02:35:43 +0000

In this courtroom sketch, Meng Wanzhou, right, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, sits beside a translator during a bail hearing at British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Meng faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of trying to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran. She appeared in a Vancouver court Friday to seek bail. (Jane Wolsak/The Canadian Press via AP)

China summoned the Canadian ambassador to protest the detention of a top executive of leading Chinese tech giant Huawei, calling it “unreasonable, unconscionable, and vile in nature.”

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