U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has joined in the call for the release of the two Canadians who have been arbitrarily detained in China since 2018. “We join our partners in calling on Beijing to immediately release the two arbitrarily detained Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig,” Blinken wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “Human beings are not bargaining chips,” Blinken said, echoing the words of the U.S. President Joe Biden on the issue earlier last month. https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1374350372911845376 Spavor and Kovrig, commonly referred to as the “Two Michaels,” were taken into custody in December 2018. While Chinese officials said the two men were charged with stealing state secrets, their detention has been widely interpreted as a hostile retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei’s senior executive Meng Wanzhou nine days earlier. Meng was arrested in a Vancouver airport on the basis of a U.S. extradition warrant while she was en route …
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