{"id":29868,"date":"2021-03-18T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/kovrig-and-spavor-china-set-to-begin-trial-of-two-canadians"},"modified":"2021-03-18T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T04:59:11","slug":"kovrig-and-spavor-china-set-to-begin-trial-of-two-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29868","title":{"rendered":"Kovrig and Spavor: China set to begin trial of two Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada criticises pair\u2019s detention as \u2018arbitrary\u2019 as Beijing says trial will begin on Friday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> has announced it will begin trials for the two Canadians it detained in apparent retaliation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a>\u2019s arrest of a telecoms executive.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in December 2018, days after Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the request of the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/kovrig-and-spavor-china-set-to-begin-trial-of-two-canadians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada criticises pair\u2019s detention as \u2018arbitrary\u2019 as Beijing says trial will begin on FridayChina has announced it will begin trials for the two Canadians it detained in apparent retaliation for Canada\u2019s arrest of a telecoms executive.Michael Kovrig an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1606,"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":[244,50,517,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-china","category-huawei","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868","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\/1606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29891,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868\/revisions\/29891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}