{"id":26821,"date":"2021-01-15T03:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/china-imprisoned-canadians-phone-families-christmas-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor"},"modified":"2021-01-15T05:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:13:17","slug":"china-allowed-imprisoned-canadians-to-phone-families-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26821","title":{"rendered":"Huawei boss had Christmas with family as jailed Canadians got to phone home"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Canada allowed family of Meng Wanzhou to visit her<\/li>\n<li>Ottawa believes China sees detentions are bargaining chip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinese authorities have said they allowed two imprisoned Canadians to phone their families at Christmas \u2013 the first time one of the men had spoken with his family in more than two years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/11\/michael-kovrig-detained-china-former-canadian-diplomat\">Michael Kovrig<\/a> and Michael Spavor were both permitted brief calls home, a move which Chinese officials said was motivated by \u201chumanitarian considerations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/china-imprisoned-canadians-phone-families-christmas-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada allowed family of Meng Wanzhou to visit herOttawa believes China sees detentions are bargaining chipChinese authorities have said they allowed two imprisoned Canadians to phone their families at Christmas \u2013 the first time one of the men had spok&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"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":[246,244,50,517,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-huawei","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821","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\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26862,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions\/26862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}