On November 15, Culture Minister Amanda Lind (MP) presented Swedish PEN's Tucholsky Prize to Swedish-Chinese publisher Gui Minhai, who is imprisoned in China.

"We strongly oppose the Swedish government being present at the awards ceremony and if they do, we have no choice but to take countermeasures," said Chinese Swedish ambassador Gui Congyou.

Three weeks later, on December 6, the Gothenburg Post revealed that an important trade meeting between Sweden and China had been canceled.

China had canceled meetings on what is called the "Joint Chinese-Swedish Commission on Economy and Trade", stated the GP, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) confirmed.

among Commission

Sweden and China had intended to hold what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes as a joint commission meeting in Stockholm on 10 December. But in mid-November, China announced that the Deputy Minister of Commerce who would have led China's delegation had to postpone his trip to Sweden and Finland, where he would have led China's delegation in the corresponding meeting with Finland.

The Joint Commission meetings on trade and the economy are recurring between Sweden and China, the Foreign Ministry stated.

No date

According to SVT, the meeting between China and Sweden's trade delegations in Stockholm was never held on December 10. Nor is there any new date for when the meeting will take place.

"We are still looking for new dates," writes Buster Mirow Emitslöf, press communicator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an email to SVT on Sunday.