China hits back at criticism of its detention of Canadians

China minced no words on Thursday as it rejected an accusation by Canada's foreign minister that its detentions of Canadians pose a threat to all countries.

"I think your foreign minister may be in a hurry, and can't help speaking without thinking," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in response to a question from a Canadian journalist.

"What threat has China posed to Canada?" She said Canada instead poses a threat to Chinese by detaining a Chinese citizen for "no reason."
The US State Department called the death sentence "politically motivated." A statement from deputy spokesman Robert Palladino on Wednesday said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Freeland spoke Tuesday and "expressed their concerns about the arbitrary detentions and politically motivated sentencing of Canadian nationals."