Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has strongly refuted a claim by China’s ambassador to Canada that “there’s no connection” between the detention of two Canadian citizens in China and Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. “It is obvious that the two Michaels were arrested on trumped-up national security charges days after we fulfilled our extradition treaty responsibilities towards our ally, the United States,” Trudeau said when asked during a press conference Wednesday if he agreed with Cong Peiwu’s claim in a media briefing earlier that day that the cases were unrelated. “Chinese officials at the time were very clear that they absolutely were connected … and nothing the ambassador can say now will dissuade me from understanding that that is indeed the case.” Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were arbitrarily detained in China in December 2018, just days after Meng was arrested at the Vancouver airport at the request of …