{"id":33433,"date":"2023-05-04T14:59:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-says-claims-of\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:00:53","slug":"china-says-claims-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-says-claims-of\/","title":{"rendered":"China says claims of officials &#8216;coercing&#8217; Canadian lawmaker, relatives are false"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211;     China&#8217;s Toronto consulate-general said on Thursday that a report of consular officers &#8220;coercing&#8221; a Canadian lawmaker and his family have &#8220;no factual basis and is purely baseless&#8221;, adding that Canadian media and politicians have ulterior motives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We express strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this,&#8221; the consulate-general spokesperson said in a statement, urging the media and politicians concerned to &#8220;stop spreading rumours and smearing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The consulate said Canadian media and politicians were &#8220;intentionally damaging the reputation and image&#8221; of the consulate, and &#8220;maliciously interfering with normal communication and cooperation between both parties&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau     said on Wednesday     that Canada&#8217;s spy agency withheld information about Chinese threats against Michael Chong, a member of parliament with Canada&#8217;s main opposition Conservative party, and his family in 2021.  <\/p>\n<p>Trudeau said he had told the agency that such threats must be revealed immediately in the future.<\/p>\n<p>(This story has been corrected to say &#8216;lawmaker,&#8217; not &#8216;congressman,&#8217; in the headline)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Liz Lee and Shanghai newsroom; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Gerry Doyle)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-says-claims-of\/illustration-shows-printed-chinese-and-canada-flags\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4300J-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4300J-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s Toronto consulate-general said on Thursday that a report of consular officers &#8220;coercing&#8221; a Canadian lawmaker and his family have &#8220;no factual basis and is purely baseless&#8221;, adding that Canadian media and politicians have ulterior motives. &#8220;We express strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this,&#8221; the consulate-general spokesperson said in a statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-33433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4300J-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34396,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33433\/revisions\/34396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}