China News Service, Toronto, September 26. Cong Peiwu, the Chinese Ambassador to Canada, was interviewed by the Canadian Bloomberg Business News Network TV on September 25, local time. He pointed out that in the Meng Wanzhou incident, Canada and the United States had conducted an extradition treaty. Abuse has nothing to do with the rule of law and cannot change the political nature of the Meng Wanzhou incident.
Cong Peiwu said that China-Canada relations have encountered great difficulties, and the root cause is the Meng Wanzhou incident.
The Meng Wanzhou incident was a political incident concocted by the United States. Its purpose was to suppress Huawei, a Chinese high-tech enterprise.
Canada played the role of an accomplice of the United States and arrested Ms. Meng, but she did not violate any Canadian laws.
China urges Canada to conduct serious reflection, properly resolve the incident, and immediately release Ms. Meng to create conditions for the relationship between the two countries to get back on track.
Only in this way can the two sides fully tap the potential for cooperation.
Cong Peiwu once again emphasized the political nature of the Meng Wanzhou incident.
He said that now, more and more people of insight in Canada and the international community have a clear understanding of this.
Many people from Canada jointly wrote to the Canadian government, believing that the Canadian government can do the right thing, and this is in line with the rule of law.
Cong Peiwu said that the United States is now adopting more and more unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction". It not only targets Huawei, but also targets Chinese high-tech companies such as WeChat and TikTok.
This fully demonstrates that the true intention of the United States is to suppress any Chinese companies that are ahead of them.
This is very dangerous.
He said that the US's obvious goal of suppressing Huawei is to prevent the development of Chinese high-tech enterprises.
The United States keeps saying that it wants to build a "clean network", but it is actually playing a "dirty game."
The United States is the biggest threat to cyber security.
China hopes that Canada will provide a fair, just, open and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies including Huawei.
This is very important to boost the confidence of foreign investors in the Canadian business environment.
Cong Peiwu said that for China and Canada, bilateral economic and trade cooperation is essentially mutually beneficial and win-win.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations 50 years ago, China and Canada have achieved important results in the economic and trade field.
In recent years, China and Canada have maintained communication on free trade agreement negotiations and reached consensus in some aspects.
However, due to some interfering factors from Canada, this process has stalled.
The Chinese side believes that China-Canada economic and trade cooperation is promising in the long run.
Talking about the Kang Mingkai case and the Michael case, Cong Peiwu reiterated that with regard to the two Canadian citizens, the Chinese judiciary handled the case according to law because they were suspected of engaging in activities that endanger China's national security.
At the same time, their legal rights are protected by law, and there is no "arbitrary arrest" for them.
Talking about the human rights situation in China, Cong Peiwu said that the Chinese people have the most say. He said that the human rights situation in China is currently at the best period in history. In the 71 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, it has achieved world-renowned development achievements, which are highly praised by most members of the international community. Issues related to Hong Kong are not human rights issues. The National Security Law is implemented in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to plug loopholes in the maintenance of national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In fact, related surveys show that 80% of Hong Kong residents believe that Hong Kong has become more stable and safer after the implementation of the National Security Law. Facts speak louder than words. (Finish)