{"id":37473,"date":"2021-09-30T01:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/meng-wanzhou-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-china-analysis"},"modified":"2021-09-30T06:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T21:58:47","slug":"meng-and-the-michaels-saga-is-over-but-rifts-between-china-and-canada-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37473","title":{"rendered":"Meng and the Michaels: why China\u2019s embrace of hostage diplomacy is a warning to other nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Beijing\u2019s increasingly hardline approach sends a chilling message <\/p>\n<p>The release of two Canadian hostages by China has ended a lengthy feud between the two countries, but experts caution the saga foreshadows a deepening rift between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>After facing charges of espionage and spending more than 1,000 days in detention, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/canadian-pm-trudeau-says-detained-citizens-michael-kovrig-and-michael-spavor-have-left-china\">were set free<\/a> by Chinese authorities late last week. Accompanied by Canada\u2019s ambassador to China, the pair arrived home early on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/meng-wanzhou-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-china-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Beijing\u2019s increasingly hardline approach sends a chilling message The release of two Canadian hostages by China has ended a lengthy feud between the two countries, but experts caution the saga foreshadows a deepening rift between the two nati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2611,"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":[246,41,244,50,319,517,1829],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-huawei","category-meng-wanzhou"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37473","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\/2611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37485,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37473\/revisions\/37485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}