US President Donald Trump thinks he might boost a China trade deal if he stops prosecutors from extraditing a Huawei executive, but he risks undermining the US justice system.
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US President Donald Trump has said he would intervene in US efforts to extradite Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou if it helped him win a trade deal with China.
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Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was granted bail by a Canadian court, allowing the executive to stay in her Vancouver home as she awaits a possible extradition to the US over fraud charges.
The Trump administration has insisted the arrest of a top Huawei executive has nothing to do with trade talks. In Beijing, it’s just the latest US move to contain China’s rise as a global power.
The arrest last week in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, China’s iconic company, is a watershed event.
If the US continues to play hardball on Huawei, don’t rule out Beijing at least reminding American officials of the bazooka in its cupboard
China has threatened Canada with grave consequences if a top executive at Huawei is not immediately released, calling her arrest as she changed planes in Canada “unreasonable, unconscionable and vile in nature”.
China’s Huawei is planning to overhaul its global software systems as it tries to avoid a ban in the UK and other European markets, after previous piecemeal fixes failed to assuage national security concerns.