User:Geo Swan/John Chang (Canada)

John Chang is Chinese-Canadian winemaker. He and his wife Allison Lui immigrated to Canada, from Taiwan, in the late 1990s, together with their young children. Previously, in Taiwan, Chang was a merchant in electronics.

Chang and Liu bought several Canadian wineries, that specialized in ice wine, a concentrated sweet wine, prepared from grapes that have frozen on the vine. Ice wine is popular in China, and Chang's wineries eventually sold fifty percent of the ice wine imported to China.

In 2016, when Chang and Lui were in Shanghai, on business, when they were arrested by Chinese officials. Chang was eventually convicted, and received a harsh sentence. Lui had the charges against her, but she is under a travel restriction, and can't leave China.

According to the South China Morning Post, Chang and Liu's detention in China was likely to impede Canadian Prime Minister's December 2017 efforts to secure a free trade deal with China.