“I think it was important that I have an opportunity to have face-to-face discussions with President Xi on this issue,” Trudeau said. “We take the situation of the two Canadians detained in China extremely seriously, and it was important we have those exchanges,” Trudeau added. But in his own post-G20 press conference, marked by a reboot of stalled trade talks between the White House and Beijing, Trump didn’t explicitly mention Kovrig and Spavor. “We did discuss Huawei, but we didn’t discuss her situation.” Huawei would have to be the last issue discussed in trade talks with China, he added. Trudeau noted that next year’s G20 summit will be held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Source: thestar June 29, 2019 14:37 UTC