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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: A Crisis Between China and Canada Has Big Global Implications
Description: On December 1st, a business executive named Meng Wanzhou was arrested while transferring through the Vancouver airport at the request of US authorities. Ms Meng is the CFO of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei and now faces extradition to the United States.  About ten days later, a former Canadian diplomat and analyst with the International Crisis Group named Michael Kovrig was mysteriously arrested in China. His arrest was followed by the arrest of another Canadian, businessman Micheal Spavor, under similarly opaque circumstances.  These incidents have plunged Canada into a diplomatic crisis -- and this crisis has implications far beyond Canada, accor...