Trudeau Shoots Back at China’s Claim It Is Being ‘Naive’ in Courting Allies

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Hotel Fairmont Royal York During the Ukraine Reform Conference in Toronto, on July 2, 2019. Andrew Lahodynskyj/The Canadian Press

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that President Donald Trump made good on his pledge to raise the plight of the two Canadians imprisoned in China with President Xi Jinping.

Trudeau said Trump did raise the cases of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor with Xi during their meeting at the G20 leaders’ summit in Japan this past weekend, just as he pledged to do in their White House meeting last month.