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Beijing’s remarks are intervened after Ottawa has announced that it would cease all Canadian business operations.
Canada Chinese request Hikvision surveillance equipment company To close local operations, “damage” bilateral trade, complicating recent efforts to improve links between countries, said the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
Beijing’s remarks occurred on Monday after the Canadian Minister of Industry, Melanie Joly, announced last week on the X social media platform that Hikvision Canada Inc had been condemned to these operations due to the concerns that their continuation would be “harmful” to the security of the country.
Friday, his statement did not provide details on the alleged threat posed by Hikvision products, but the departments and agencies would be prohibited from using them and that the government “carried out an examination of existing properties to guarantee that products inherited from Hikvision are not used in the future”.
The Chinese trade ministry responded by accusing Ottawa to “too generate national security”, declaring: “China is strongly dissatisfied”.
“This compromises not only the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies and affects the confidence of companies in the two countries in cooperation, but also disrupts and damages normal economic and commercial cooperation between China and Canada,” the statement said.
“China urges Canada to immediately correct its bad practices,” he added.
Hikvision, based in Hangzhou, is one of the world’s main manufacturers of security cameras and other surveillance products, but has been faced with a meticulous examination abroad for its role In the alleged violations of Beijing rights against the Muslim population of the Uighur minority.
The United States included Hikvision in a black list of 2019 of Chinese entities which, according to him, were involved in the violations and abuse of human rights in the implementation of the implementation of China’s repression campaignMass arbitrary detention and high -tech surveillance against Lesueurs and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang.
The last disagreement represents an early test for China-Canada relations after Prime Minister Mark Carney jumped to electoral victory in April.
China said that in response to the election result that Beijing was willing to improve links with Ottawa, a relationship shaken in recent years by a range of thorny problems.
The arrest of a high Chinese telecommunications official on an American mandate in Vancouver in December 2018 and the Beijing restoration of two Canadians on charges of spying plunged relations into a deep frost.
Links were still stretched on allegations of Chinese interference in the Canadian elections in 2019 and 2021, the charges of Beijing denied.
Joly said that the decision to ban Hikvision had been made following a “several -step exam” of the Canadian security and intelligence community.
