A second Canadian man is feared detained in China in what appears to be retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a top executive of telecommunications giant Huawei. The possible arrest raises the stakes in an international dispute that threatens relations.
Canada’s Global Affairs department has said, Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur who is one of the only Westerners to have met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, had gone missing in China.
Spavor’s disappearance follows China’s detention of a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing earlier this week. Its announcement came hours after Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said she is worried another citizen had been detained in China following Monday’s arrest of its former diplomat Michael Kovrig in Beijing.
