{"id":53822,"date":"2023-03-26T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/26\/canada-china-relations-election-meddling-analysis"},"modified":"2023-03-26T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T10:00:15","slug":"new-allegations-and-a-resignation-strain-already-fraught-china-canada-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53822","title":{"rendered":"New allegations and a resignation strain already fraught China-Canada relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Han Dong\u2019s departure escalates row over allegations that Beijing meddled in Canada\u2019s elections as friction between countries grows<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt resignation of a Canadian lawmaker over allegations he secretly met with a Chinese diplomat has escalated a row over allegations that Beijing meddled in Canadian elections \u2013 and highlighted the complex and often fraught relationship between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Han Dong, a member of the governing Liberal party, was reported to have met with Han Tao, China\u2019s consul general in February 2021, to suggest that Chinese authorities delay freeing Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians who were detained in China at the time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/26\/canada-china-relations-election-meddling-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Han Dong\u2019s departure escalates row over allegations that Beijing meddled in Canada\u2019s elections as friction between countries growsThe abrupt resignation of a Canadian lawmaker over allegations he secretly met with a Chinese diplomat has escalated a row&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3664,"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":[246,41,244,50,712,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-justin-trudeau","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53822","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\/3664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53823,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53822\/revisions\/53823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}