China claims Canada to close “Hikvision” commercial relationships Human Rights News

Beijing’s comments come after Ottawa announced that it will stop all Canadian operations of the company.

Canada’s request to the Chinese Hikvision Equipment Equipment Company The Ministry of Commerce in China said that the “closing of local operations” will “harm” bilateral trade, which holds recent efforts to improve relations between countries.

Beijing’s comments appeared on Monday after Canadian Minister of Industry Melanie Jolie announced last week on the social media platform that Hikvision Canada Inc was ordered to stop all operations because of the concerns would be “harmful” with the security of the country.

Its statement on Friday did not provide details of the alleged threat posed by Hikvision products, but he said that the departments and agencies will be prohibited from using them, and that the government “is conducting a review of the current property to ensure that the old Hikvision products are not used to move forward.”

The Ministry of Commerce in China responded by accusing Ottawa of “excessive national security,” saying: “China is not very satisfied.”

“This not only undermines the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies and affects the confidence of companies from both countries in cooperation, but also disrupts and harms economic and natural trade cooperation between China and Canada.”

“China urges Canada to correct its wrong practices immediately,” he added.

Hangzhou -based Hikvision is one of the world’s most prominent manufacturers of security cameras and other surveillance products, but it has faced an audit Abroad for her role In violations of the alleged rights in Beijing against the residents of the Uighur Muslim minority.

The United States included Hikvision in a black list of 2019 of Chinese entities that it said was involved in human rights violations and violations of implementation Campaign in ChinaCollective arbitrary detention, high -tech monitoring against UIGHURS and other Islamic minority groups in Xinjiang.

The last dispute is an early test of China and Canada’s relations yet Prime Minister Mark Carney rose To the electoral victory in April.

China said in response to the electoral result that Beijing was ready to improve relations with Ottawa, a relationship that has been shook in recent years through a set of thorny issues.

A senior Chinese telecommunications executive in the field of an American order in Vancouver was arrested in December 2018, and Beijing resurrected by Canadians on charges of espionage, the relationships were drowned in a deep freezing.

Additional relations were tense about the allegations of Chinese overlap in the Canadian elections in 2019 and 2021, denied the charges of Beijing.

Julie said that the decision that Hikfon had been reached after a “multi -step review” of the information provided by the Canadian security and intelligence community.