17.02.2021
CCCL Director Professor Wang Jiangyu commented on the Chinese government’s response to Canada’s initiative of launching a non-binding declaration signed by 58 nations to denounce arbitrary detentions in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore’s flagship Chinese newspaper. He observed that any move against using people as bargaining chips in state-to-state relations should be welcome but Canada’s moral high ground is also undermined by its detention of Chinese citizen Meng Wanzhou. See full report here: “加拿大發起反任意拘押宣言 中國譴責拉幫結派‘賊喊捉賊’”，《聯合早報》，2020年2月17日 <https://www.zaobao.com/znews/greater-china/story20210217-1124618>.
