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.
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A Canadian court ruling that could permit the extradition of a senior Huawei Technologies executive to the US leaves Canada vulnerable to further retaliation from Beijing, analysts said.
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou shouldn’t be dispatched to the US because her alleged crimes don’t meet Canada’s legal tests for extradition, her defence lawyers said at the opening of hearings.
Canada has officially ordered the start of extradition hearings against Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, in a proceeding that promises to be long and politically explosive.
Canada will probably ban Huawei from its 5G networks, analysts and security experts say, though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may delay the decision as long as possible.
BlackBerry and the Canadian government are opening a research centre for self-driving cars that raises the possibility of government backing for the former smartphone maker’s automotive software unit. Chief CEO John Chen and