China denounces Canada PM's "coercive diplomacy" remarks

China pushed back Wednesday against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's remarks that it engages in "coercive diplomacy" and called the Canadian government hypocritical.China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian called Canada's holding of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co., an "arbitrary detention" and a more typical case of coercive diplomacy."We have lodged a formal protest against Canada's deliberate distortion of facts and for releasing a false statement," Zhao said in a regular news briefing in Beijing."The Canadian government ha…READ FULL ARTICLE