{"id":37316,"date":"2021-09-25T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T01:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/canadian-pm-trudeau-says-detained-citizens-michael-kovrig-and-michael-spavor-have-left-china"},"modified":"2021-09-25T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T13:26:47","slug":"china-frees-detained-canadians-michael-kovrig-and-michael-spavor-trudeau-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37316","title":{"rendered":"China frees detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men, who were detained by Beijing in 2018, were released hours after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was freed in Canada<\/p>\n<p>The more than 1,00-day ordeal of two Canadian citizens, detained by Beijing in what critics had labelled an act of \u201chostage diplomacy\u201d over a Chinese executive arrested on US fraud charges, came to an end on Saturday, with all parties arriving back on their respective home soil.<\/p>\n<p>The plane carrying Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor arrived in Calgary, a location which had not been publicly disclosed. The Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoyerMichel\/status\/1441747887411503112\"> embraced <\/a> them on the tarmac. The plane had left Chinese airspace just hours after US authorities reached an agreement allowing Chinese Huawei executive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/19\/meng-wanzhou-huawei-profile-china-canada-us-dispute\">Meng Wanzhou<\/a>, to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in a fraud case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/canadian-pm-trudeau-says-detained-citizens-michael-kovrig-and-michael-spavor-have-left-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men, who were detained by Beijing in 2018, were released hours after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was freed in CanadaThe more than 1,00-day ordeal of two Canadian citizens, detained by Beijing in what critics had labelled an act of \u201chostage diplom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37316","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37344,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37316\/revisions\/37344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}