{"id":28627,"date":"2021-02-19T02:38:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/18\/china-canada-declaration-arbitrary-detention-foreign-citizens"},"modified":"2021-02-19T02:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:38:15","slug":"china-lashes-out-at-canada-for-signing-declaration-against-arbitrary-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28627","title":{"rendered":"China lashes out at Canada for signing declaration against arbitrary detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement made no mention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor but Canada has tried to build global support to secure their release<\/p>\n<p>China has lashed out against Canada for signing a declaration denouncing the arbitrary detention of foreign citizens, describing the move as a \u201cdespicable and hypocritical act\u201d as relations between the two countries remain tense.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Canada and 57 other nations, including the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/news-nouvelles\/arbitrary_detention-detention_arbitraire-declaration.aspx?lang=eng\">jointly signed a declaration<\/a> condemning the use of arbitrary detention for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/18\/china-canada-declaration-arbitrary-detention-foreign-citizens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement made no mention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor but Canada has tried to build global support to secure their releaseChina has lashed out against Canada for signing a declaration denouncing the arbitrary detention of foreign citizens, des&#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":[246,41,244,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","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\/28627","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=28627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28628,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627\/revisions\/28628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}