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Senior Chinese diplomat Lu Kang on Meng Wanzhou and Sino-Canadian relations: "This is an issue that could bring about more opportunity costs for the Canadian Government and for our bilateral relationship in general."
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@nvanderklippe @felixliuworld Q: If they are not hostages, then why were they arrested so quickly together on the same day after Meng Wanzhou?
Chinese diplomat Lu Kang: Actually for today’s world, that happens…You can’t just link everything together.
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@nvanderklippe @felixliuworld Q: Is this the goal of China’s foreign policy to make other countries fear China?
Lu Kang: That is never our policy. And that is not the whole picture for Chinese diplomacy…Don’t just focus on a couple of countries…It just happens…there are some issues.
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@nvanderklippe @felixliuworld Lu Kang: China, in our diplomacy, still stick to sincere dialogue through bilateral channels. But there are always cases when the counterpart is not in the mood for dialogue but resorting to microphone diplomacy, as it happened between China and Canada.
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@nvanderklippe @felixliuworld Q: If China is holding two Canadian people hostage…why would Canadian athletes come to China for the Olympics?
Lu Kang: Canada is very strong in Winter Olympics…Concerning…the call for boycott of the Winter Olympics, actually I don’t hear very much.
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