{"id":59974,"date":"2023-11-21T05:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/20\/canada-china-michael-spavor-spying"},"modified":"2023-11-21T05:01:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:01:55","slug":"canada-china-detention-feud-reopened-after-claims-of-unwitting-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59974","title":{"rendered":"Canada-China detention feud reopened after claims of \u2018unwitting\u2019 espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freed detainee Michael Spavor says he unknowingly passed intelligence to Michael Kovrig, who then told Canadian officials<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/24\/meng-wanzhou-canada-china\">simmering diplomatic feud<\/a> prompted by China\u2019s detention of two Canadian citizens has been reopened after one of the men claimed he was arrested for unknowingly passing on intelligence to Canada and its allies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-spavor-kovrig-china-intelligence-background\/\">The Globe and Mail reported Michael Spavor<\/a> is seeking a multi-million dollar settlement from Canada\u2019s federal government, alleging he \u201cunwittingly\u201d provided intelligence on North Korea to fellow Canadian Michael Kovrig, who then shared that information with Canada and Five Eyes allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/20\/canada-china-michael-spavor-spying\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freed detainee Michael Spavor says he unknowingly passed intelligence to Michael Kovrig, who then told Canadian officialsA simmering diplomatic feud prompted by China\u2019s detention of two Canadian citizens has been reopened after one of the men claimed h&#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":[246,41,244,50,667,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-espionage","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974","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=59974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60001,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974\/revisions\/60001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}