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The federal government has asked an Ottawa-based travel services company to change its warning to clients about visiting China because it is too alarmist.

But the co-owner of the firm has refused, saying Global Affairs Canada is trying to downplay the travel danger to appease the Chinese government and has no right to tell a private company how it communicates with its clients.

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Relations between China and Canada have hit a new low after the Trudeau government acted on a warrant to arrest Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou while she was travelling through the Vancouver airport on Dec. 1. The U.S. government wants to extradite Meng, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei and the daughter of its founder, so she can face charges related to Huawei’s business dealings in Iran.

In the aftermath of her arrest the Chinese government seized two Canadians, claiming they were engaging in activities that endangered China’s national security. The men are interrogated for four hours a day and have no access to a lawyer.