Trudeau calls China’s close encounter with Canadian warplanes ‘provocative’
Canadian planes enforcing UN North Korea sanctions had to avoid colliding with Chinese jets in encounter in international airspace
Justin Trudeau has denounced Beijing’s “irresponsible and provocative” actions after a recent encounter in international airspace over Asia.
The incident, in which Canadian aircraft deployed in Japan encountered, and in some cases had to avoid colliding with, Chinese jets, has again raised tensions between Beijing and Ottawa, just as the crisis over Canada’s 2018 arrest of the Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou, began to subside.