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With tech exec arrest, Canada squeezed between China, US

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With tech exec arrest, Canada squeezed between China, USThe arrest of a top Chinese tech executive at the request of the US has snared Canada in the middle of a major international dispute involving Beijing and Washington. Ottawa confirmed on Thursday that China had detained two Canadian nationals under what Beijing has said is suspicion of threatening its national security. The resulting crisis is to blame on “a trade war between China and the United States,” Fred Bild, a former Canadian diplomat and Asian studies professor at the University of Montreal, told AFP.