China lifts travel restrictions, snubs Canada

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00:00 Beijing has lifted its COVID ban on group tours to 138 countries last week.

00:06 This includes the United States, Germany, Japan, and Australia, but not Canada.

00:11 Canada sees this as an act made against its anti-Beijing rattling group.

00:15 Tours from China to Canada were first approved in 2010.

00:19 But China-Canada relations have been soured by a series of retaliations.

00:23 In 2018, a top Huawei executive in Vancouver was arrested on a U.S. warrant.

00:29 Then two Canadians living in China were accused of espionage.

00:33 This year, accusations were raised on the Chinese meddling in Canadian elections,

00:38 while the attempted intimidation of members of parliament led to the expulsion

00:42 of a Chinese diplomat in May.

00:44 Beijing countered by sending home a Canadian diplomat from Canada's consulate in Shanghai.

00:50 The Canadian government has yet to respond to the latest move of China.