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US Tells Canada It's Urging China to Free Detained Canadians

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   Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured Canada on Thursday that the
   United States was working to get China to release two Canadians it
   detained last year on espionage charges in cases linked to a U.S.
   criminal charge against a Chinese technology executive.
   On a visit to Ottawa, Pompeo told Canadian Prime Minister Justin
   Trudeau, "Please do know our team is focused on helping those two
   Canadians be released. We're working on it diligently. It's wrong that
   they are being held."
   Pompeo saidthat "China needs to honor the commitments it's made to the
   world, and it's our expectation they'll do so."
   Ahead of their talks, Trudeau said he appreciated U.S. efforts and
   would be talking with Pompeo about "how we move forward on that."
   Trudeau said last month that U.S. President Donald Trump had raised the
   issue with Chinese President Xi Jinping at one of their meetings.
   China detained former Canadian diplomat MichaelKovrigand entrepreneur
   MichaelSpavorin December 2018 in an apparent attempt to pressure Canada
   to release MengWanzhou, chief financial officer at Huawei, the giant
   Chinese telecommunications company.

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