BEIJING—China said it formally arrested two Canadian citizens on espionage charges, five months after the pair were first detained, advancing a case seen as retribution for Canada’s arrest of a senior Huawei Technologies Co. executive. Michael Kovrig, a researcher and former diplomat, was arrested on charges of “probing into state secrets and intelligence,” while entrepreneur Michael Spavor was arrested on allegations of stealing and illegally providing state secrets to overseas forces, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 16, 2019 11:22 UTC