By Steve Scherer
OTTAWA (Reuters) - China on Thursday denied it had taken two Canadian men hostage, and repeated a call for the release of a Huawei Technologies Co Ltd executive held in Canada who faces extradition to the United States amid a long-running diplomatic dispute.
Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese citizen, was arrested in Vancouver in late 2018 on a bank fraud warrant issued by U.S. authorities.
Meng has said she is innocent and is fighting extradition in a Canadian court. Shortly after Meng's arrest, Beijing detained two Canadians on national security charges and halted imports of canola seed.
Tensions flared again this week when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would work with allies to fight China's "coercive diplomacy." He warned that arbitrary arrests, repression in Hong Kong and ...
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