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– Canada fears retaliation –
Canada was bracing for a fallout in relations with China, which has been increasingly willing to punish countries it sees as countering its interests.
Canada’s cyber security chief said the country could face retaliatory cyber attacks.
“I think one of the key things is that we always have to be resilient no matter what the possible trigger could be,” Scott Jones, director of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, told a press conference.
Meng is scheduled to appear in court on Friday for a bail hearing.
Trump and Xi, who were in Argentina for a summit of the Group of 20 major economies, had agreed to set up negotiations to discuss US concerns over China’s trade barriers.
In turn, Trump agreed to hold off on raising tariffs from 10 to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods starting in the new year.
