China’s ‘hostage diplomacy’ standoff with Canada is over. But how much damage was done?

Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Spavor, a business executive, boarded a Canada-bound plane on Friday, hours after the U.S. Justice Department cut a deal with Meng, 49, allowing her to return to China in exchange for admitting to some wrongdoing in the criminal case. She arrived in Shenzhen on Saturday night to much fanfare.