Michael Spavor

Right.

The US asks Canada to detain a Huawei executive for fraud, and literally days later, China arrests two Canadian citizens, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and charges them with severe espionage.

They held them for over 1,000 days in terrible conditions, and then the exact same day that Huawei executive reaches an agreement with our Justice Department and flies home-

Magically, the two Michaels are put on a plane back to Canada

That is a wild and significant political choice when looking for a peace prize, and it needs to be examined alongside the language about resisting powerful countries that use leverage against others, because he also likes sipping on gin and juice with violent princes from Qatar! Canadians have direct experience with Beijing's coercion, too.

It's not like we've all forgotten, or at least I hope we haven't, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who spent 1,020 days in arbitrary detention in China.

This is part of the history against which any new strategic partnership must be judged, but it frankly hasn't been at all.

And that's on purpose.

Not to mention hostage, uh, diplomacy.

I'm sure you've all heard of the two Michaels, Michael, uh, Spavor and, and Kovrig, if I pronounced that correctly, from Canada.

I'll stop there.

Thank you, Frank.