Canada Gets a Taste of a Hostile China

A man holds a placard calling for China to release Canadian detainees Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig outside a court hearing for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada, on March 6, 2019. Lindsey Wasson/Reuters

News Analysis

In the final days of 2019, just as the United States announced that it would be signing phase one of its trade agreement with China early in the new year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked that no deal be signed until the Canadians held captive in China are released.