纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Canadian Jailed by China in Tit-for-Tat Dispute Gets a Settlement
March 8, 2024 2 min 235 words
这篇报道揭示了中加关系的棘手局面。在中加关系紧张的时刻，一位加拿大人因涉嫌从事不当活动被中国关押，引发了一场针锋相对的争端。报道中提到该加拿大人最终达成了一项和解，这或许是为了缓解紧张的外交压力。这一事件凸显了国际关系中的政治耐力较量，也呼吁各国对话解决分歧。中西关系的微妙平衡使得涉及个人的纠纷也牵扯出更为深远的国际政治议题。希望未来能通过建设性的外交努力，维护各国之间的合作与理解，避免类似事件对全球稳定产生负面影响。
The government of Canada has reached a financial settlement with one of two Canadian men it contends were arbitrarily detained for nearly three years by China in a retaliatory move, the man’s lawyer said.
John K. Phillips, who represents Michael Spavor, told The Associated Press Wednesday evening that “I am only able to say that the matter between Mr. Spavor and the government of Canada has been resolved.”
Mr. Spavor, a businessman who had extensive dealings in North Korea, and Michael Kovrig, then a Canadian diplomat who was on leave and working for a Belgium-based foreign policy analysis group, were arrested in China in December 2018. They were charged with spying.
Their detentions in separate prisons was, Canadian officials contended, retribution for Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, then the chief financial officer of the Chinese technology giant Huawei. That arrest was made at the request of the United States.
China released the two men in September 2021 after U.S. Justice Department concluded an agreement that allowed Ms. Meng to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in a fraud case.