Lebanon and China, capping a bubble-bursting, four-country tour amid an unprecedented global pandemic.Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne met face to face Thursday with Lebanese President Michel Aoun in Beirut, exhorting him to bend to the will of his country’s “street” and heed their calls for reform.A day earlier in Rome, Champagne crossed paths, unexpectedly, with his Chinese counterpart, the hard-nosed Wang Yi, and told him in no uncertain terms that Canada has the world’s liberal democracies on its side as he ratcheted up his push for the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
China says it remains firm on detention of 2 Canadians after foreign ministers meet “I was very clear that coercive diplomacy is not.