It was a “highly choreographed” affair, the parallel returns of Meng Wanzhou to China and the long-awaited homecoming of the two Michaels — Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — to Canada.
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Canada, the United States and China all deny there was any deal or negotiation to liberate the two Canadian detainees in return for the release of Huawei’s chief financial officer.
And on Monday, governments in the East and West told very different stories of how and why it all came about.
The U.S. and Canada insisted that the decision to release the two men was reached by the Chinese authorities in the face of unrelenting pressure by Canadian, American and international allies, including U.S. President Joe Biden, who opposed China’s “arbitrary detention” of them.
In the Chinese version, the two Canadian detainees sought bail “for medical reasons.”
可能最终这件事,美国加拿大中国都是在做人质交易,但是都不愿承认,因为如果承认,所有国家都等于承认了自己违反了法律做人质交易。
但是这个给加拿大留了一个不好的尾巴,就是中国坚持加拿大两个麦克取保候审,而且上面报道加拿大也没有否认:
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declined to comment on China’s claim that the Canadians were released for health reasons. “China made a decision, right? China decided to detain them, China decided to let them go,” she said.
“Their motivations are their motivations, and I think people are drawing conclusions from the facts here.”