{"id":19499,"date":"2020-06-19T14:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/19\/china-charges-two-detained-canadians-spavor-kovrig-with-alleged-espionage"},"modified":"2020-06-19T14:08:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:08:28","slug":"china-charges-two-detained-canadians-with-alleged-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19499","title":{"rendered":"China charges two detained Canadians with alleged espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spying charges against former diplomat and businessman are seen as retaliation for Canadian arrest of Chinese telco chief<\/p>\n<p>Chinese prosecutors have charged two detained Canadians with alleged espionage, in a case that has driven a diplomatic wedge between Ottawa and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were arrested in late 2018 on state security charges, after Canadian authorities arrested Huawei Technologies Co\u2019s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver on a US warrant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/19\/china-charges-two-detained-canadians-spavor-kovrig-with-alleged-espionage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spying charges against former diplomat and businessman are seen as retaliation for Canadian arrest of Chinese telco chiefChinese prosecutors have charged two detained Canadians with alleged espionage, in a case that has driven a diplomatic wedge betwee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,50,667,639,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-espionage","category-extradition","category-law","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19500,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions\/19500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}