China's Captured "Princess"
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BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If you want to understand the global reach of a rising China, visit Vancouver. Canada has been sucked in to an intractable dispute between the US and China after the arrest on an American warrant of Meng Wanzhou, an executive with the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. Beijing’s furious response caught Canada off guard. Two Canadians have been detained in China – seemingly in response, precipitating an acute foreign policy crisis. Canadian journalist Neal Razzell examines what could be the first of many tests both for Canada and other nations, forced to choose between old allies like America and the new Asian economic giant.
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| 0:47.0 | The spread of coronavirus cases is a reminder of just how entwined our lives are with China. |
| 0:53.0 | But I've got a different story to tell about Chinese connections and power. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a cautionary tale that starts in Vancouver on Canada's west coast. The nine o'clock gun, it startles the poor geese every night, and it echoes off mountains that rise above Vancouver's |
| 1:27.9 | harbour. |
| 1:29.1 | The water is black, streaked with the lights of ships and skyscrapers. |
| 1:35.2 | This is Canada's bejeweled front door in terms of Pacific trade. |
| 1:40.1 | Almost everything to and from China comes through here. |
| 1:45.0 | What came from China more than a year ago now, |
| 1:51.0 | a single woman, has thrust Canada into the middle of the defining geopolitical |
| 1:55.8 | struggle of the 21st century. The Americans knew she was coming, knew her flight number, knew which of her seven |
| 2:06.6 | passports she'd be using, knew where she'd be and for how long. |
| 2:13.6 | They knew they had enough for the Canadians to act. |
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