nir Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 International Crisis Group 'doing everything possible' to find its employee, secure release The detention of Canadian Michael Kovrig follows the arrest in Canada of the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Dec. 1. Meng Wanzhou's bail hearing continues Tuesday in Vancouver.(International Crisis Group) A former Canadian diplomat has been detained in China, two sources said on Tuesday, and his current employer, the International Crisis Group, said it was seeking his prompt and safe release. Michael Kovrig's detention comes after police in Canada arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Dec. 1 at the request of U.S. authorities, a move that infuriated Beijing. It was not immediately clear if the cases were related, but the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver has stoked fears of reprisals against the foreign business community in China. "International Crisis Group is aware of reports that its North East Asia Senior Adviser, Michael Kovrig, has been detained in China," the think-tank said in a statement. "We are doing everything possible to secure additional information on Michael's whereabouts as well as his prompt and safe release," it added. China's Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Public Security did not respond immediately to questions faxed earlier about Kovrig's detention. The exact reason for the detention was not immediately clear. The Canadian Embassy declined to comment, referring queries to Ottawa. Calls to Kovrig's phones were not answered. Kovrig, a Mandarin speaker, has been working as a full-time expert for the International Crisis Group since February 2017. From 2003 to 2016, he worked as a diplomat with stints in Beijing and Hong Kong, among others, according to his profile on LinkedIn. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 This is nothing new Mark Swidan, American Jailed on ‘Flimsy’ Charges in China, Holds Little Hope https://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/19/mark-swidan-american-jailed-china-488457.html Canadian prisoner in China has sentence reduced after 're-education' https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadian-prisoner-in-china-has-sentence-reduced-after-re-education-1.3657621 This is normal for China but when Canada or the USA does it to someone the Left wing media tries to scare people . If people get took prisoner over in China they knew the risk of it they even killed many Amercains said they was the CIA, Tech Giants are over there for greed and there own benefit just like Huawei was in the USA for there own benefit tell the govt ban them they even hired a guy from the Midwest USA that didnt know nothing about tech to run it to make people trust them. But normal people are jailed all the time and no one cares . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nir Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 3 minutes ago, steven36 said: This is nothing new The news is fresh. The tradition of taking prisoners and holding them is very old, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Its new news but and eye for and eye just has the opposite effect and makes people trust China even less and it don't solve nothing sovereign nations won't negotiate with hostage takers they never have and never will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nir Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 9 minutes ago, steven36 said: Its new news Nice to hear this acknowledgement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 15 minutes ago, nir said: Nice to hear this acknowledgement. Why does it matter if acknowledge its new or not? its new but it's not it's the same old for China dayin and day out they even arrest there own for for being westernized so anyone from the west should know they may go there and never comeback one day . Even in the USA the system can swallow you up and take your freedom away what happen to Ming is no different that what can happen to anyone of us if they suspect us of a crime and think they have enough evidence to proceed and China should not start a anti Chinese movement in the USA like we had before were we ban all travel to and from, because unlike China we have millions of Chinese who live here because they want too, there not here for greed many cook and work doing low wage jobs and they will make it bad on there own people who live here, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nir Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 Just now, steven36 said: Why does it matter 36 minutes ago, steven36 said: This is nothing new 27 minutes ago, steven36 said: Its new news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 18 minutes ago, nir said: That's just my opinion its normal for China i just see it as history repeating itself . it don't matter just like the news want free Ming or Michael taking hostages will just cause problems were the west will ban all trade with China if the UN gets pissed off. They just hurting themselves and how logical is that? Always countries do stupid things that make the other country mad when all Governments are to blame . They always pointing a finger at each other and pointing 4 fingers back at themselves and the media makes a show out of it, no wonder we have Anarchists who hate all forums of Government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steven36 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 1 hour ago, knowledge said: china is just geting started wait for more things thats for sure they want her back and if she not back things will not get better thats for sure lol , i don't care if they arrest the people from the Town i'm from over there , it will just be karma coming back on the greedy rich who sent millions of our jobs over there . Fact is other than human rights activist no one cares . you don't realize how much money China stands to lose ...98% of the USA is going on with there daily lives and don't even care. This may be a hot topic on social media here or there tell the next story takes its place . i love it i hope it bust up all trade with China and we have to start making our own stuff again . We had many hostages took from other countries before and it just made us never to trade with them anymore. We even forgave many after so many years in acts of war . you seem to forget the west have dealt with far worse than people being took hostage in someplace they not from to begin with . We even fought in World Wars along side Russia and China to save the world from National Socialism. You know what the worlds Savior is , it's the nuclear bomb and fear of self destruction it's the only thing that's kept the peace so long and the USA so far has been the only ones crazy enough to have used it once and so far and out of fear no one wanted to die from a atomic war . if that happens the ones left will kill everyone else before they die and then we all die and they will be no more war because we will be dead.. So i call bullshit just like the Cold War was no one had the balls to push the button again. Only 2 things saved the world back then , one was Japan didn't have nukes to shoot back and two the president who ordered that A bomb didn't allow MacArthur to have more nukes so they signed a paper that the military don't control the nukes only the president could launch them . MacArthur was going to blow Asia off the map right after World War 2 lucky for them, the president thought MacArthur was insane and did not give him the bombs he wanted . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steven36 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 16 minutes ago, knowledge said: only thing i love anymore are my family , i use to love a woman once for many years but not anymore and after we ended it, ive not had a desire to fall in love with someone new. i like people and try not to hate no one even if i don't like them , but i don't love them . The problem with love people fall out of love everyday and it causes heart break, but family love don't end because blood is thicker than water . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 A more appropriated word would be where's the peace at? but no one is buying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nir Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 “Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness and consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” -- Dwight D. Eisenhower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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