China has denounced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments as “extremely unreasonable, absurd and arrogant”, as Beijing ramped up an 11th-hour effort to prevent a Huawei executive’s extradition to the US.
The US and a coalition of allies on Monday accused China’s ministry of state security of a global hacking campaign, specifically attributing a large Microsoft attack disclosed earlier this year to hackers working on Beijing’s behalf.