Irresponsible “tough talk” with China is useless, says Canada foreign minister


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OTTAWA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Canada will keep pressing China to improve its human rights record but has no interest in irresponsible tough talk, Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said on Monday. Bilateral ties between the two nations effectively froze in December 2018 when Canadian police picked up a senior Huawei Technologies Co Ltd executive on a U.S. arrest warrant. China subsequently detained two Canadian citizens and blocked lucrative imports of canola seed. The minority Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is under pressure from the official opposition Conservatives to crack down by banning Huawei from supplying equipment to 5G...