Surviving a diplomatic brawl with China takes patience, discretion: Japanese ambassador
By Murray Brewster · CBC News
'Canada is not the only country whose nationals are detained in China' - Kimihiro Ishikane
Michael Spavor, left, and former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, right, have been accused of espionage by China. (Associated Press/International Crisis Group/Canadian Press)
The arrest and detention of two Canadians by China late last year was an event that looked eerily familiar to Japan. It is, for the government in Tokyo, part of a pattern they have had to contend with over the last few years.
China's detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — allegedly in retaliation over Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges — shocked the general public in this country and left federal policymakers reeling.
For Japan, however, such conflicts are just a basic feature of its relationship with an enormous and powerful neighbour — something to be handled with extraordinary delicacy.
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