Canada walks away from free trade talks with China over Huawei issue

12:50:00 AM, Sunday 20th of September 2020 | in politics

After broken trade ties between US and China, Canada has also walked away from the free trade talks with Beijing amid tensions over a Huawei executive's arrest and the detention of two Canadians by Beijing in a countermeasure. Canadian foreign minister Francois Philippe Champagne told the media that Canada was abandoning the free trade talks. "The China of 2020 is not the China of 2016," Champagne said.