{"id":54851,"date":"2023-05-05T04:44:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/04\/canada-china-ambassador-summoned-cong-peiwu"},"modified":"2023-05-05T04:44:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:44:40","slug":"canada-summons-chinese-ambassador-after-mp-and-his-family-harassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54851","title":{"rendered":"Canada summons Chinese ambassador after MP and his family harassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign affairs minister says Cong Peiwu was summoned to express frustration over attempts to meddle in Canadian politics<\/p>\n<p>Canada has summoned China\u2019s ambassador as Justin Trudeau\u2019s government considers expelling a Chinese diplomat accused of involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/03\/michael-chong-justin-trudeau-harassment-canada-china\">a harassment campaign against a MP lawmaker and his family<\/a> in retaliation for the lawmaker\u2019s criticisms of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign affairs minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/canada-china-relations-cop15-indo-pacific\">M\u00e9lanie Joly<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/parlvu.parl.gc.ca\/Harmony\/en\/PowerBrowser\/PowerBrowserV2\/20230504\/-1\/39142\">told a parliamentary committee<\/a> on Thursday that her office had summoned Chinese ambassador Cong Peiwu to express frustration over attempts to meddle in Canada\u2019s domestic politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/04\/canada-china-ambassador-summoned-cong-peiwu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign affairs minister says Cong Peiwu was summoned to express frustration over attempts to meddle in Canadian politicsCanada has summoned China\u2019s ambassador as Justin Trudeau\u2019s government considers expelling a Chinese diplomat accused of involvement&#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":[246,244,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","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\/54851","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=54851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54852,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54851\/revisions\/54852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}