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Bio1590
12/09/18 3:36:29 PM
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/09/tech/huawei-cfo-china-summons-ambassador/index.html

The Chinese Foreign Ministry is summoning the Canadian ambassador to China to address the detention of a Huawei executive in Vancouver, describing it as "lawless" and "extremely vicious."

The tech giant's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested December 1 and faces extradition to the United States, where she is accused of helping Huawei circumvent US sanctions on Iran.

In a statement Saturday, the vice minister of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Le Yucheng said the arrest "severely violated the Chinese citizen's legal and legitimate rights and interests, it is lawless, reasonless and ruthless, and it is extremely vicious."

The statement summons Canadian ambassador to China John McCallum to address Meng's detention.

China strongly urges Canada to "release the detainee immediately and earnestly protest the person's legal and legitimate rights and interests, otherwise it will definitely have serious consequences, and the Canadian side will have to bear the full responsibility for it," Yucheng said in the statement.

Meng is believed to have helped Huawei circumvent US sanctions on Iran by telling financial institutions that a Huawei subsidiary was a separate company, Canadian prosecutors said at a hearing Friday to determine whether Meng should be released on bail.

Her lawyer said that she has ties to Canada and is not a flight risk. The judge, after hearing arguments from Meng's lawyer and prosecutors, did not rule on bail. The hearing will resume Monday at 1 p.m. ET.

Previously, details surrounding why Meng, 46, had been detained were limited due to a press ban. A judge had accepted Meng's request to bar both police and prosecutors from releasing information about the case prior to the hearing. The ban was lifted on Friday.

A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a warrant for Meng's arrest on August 22, it was revealed at the hearing Friday. She was arrested on December 1.

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DarkTransient
12/09/18 3:38:09 PM
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Exactly what authority does the US or Canada have to demand China implement sanctions on another country anyway? If China themself have enacted sanctions, they should handle the prosecution if their people violate it (and their nationals should be extradited there to face it, if they've fled).
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StarSpangled
12/09/18 3:42:59 PM
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Looks like Cuckanada is in between a rock and a hard place!
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ArkThompson
12/09/18 3:45:00 PM
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DarkTransient posted...
Exactly what authority does the US or Canada have to demand China implement sanctions on another country anyway? If China themself have enacted sanctions, they should handle the prosecution if their people violate it (and their nationals should be extradited there to face it, if they've fled).

They're saying that she committed fraud by lying to US banks about Huawei's connections to the subsidiary that dealt with Iran. Presumably, in doing so the subsidiary was able to keep trading with Iran, which likely broke some kind of sanctions law.
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rikasa
12/09/18 3:49:12 PM
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I can't believe Canada would hurt China's feelings like that BibleThump
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rikasa
12/09/18 3:50:04 PM
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i'm not an expert but the problem is that they were reselling american parts to iran right?
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DarkTransient
12/09/18 3:51:20 PM
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ArkThompson posted...
DarkTransient posted...
Exactly what authority does the US or Canada have to demand China implement sanctions on another country anyway? If China themself have enacted sanctions, they should handle the prosecution if their people violate it (and their nationals should be extradited there to face it, if they've fled).

They're saying that she committed fraud by lying to US banks about Huawei's connections to the subsidiary that dealt with Iran. Presumably, in doing so the subsidiary was able to keep trading with Iran, which likely broke some kind of sanctions law.


Ah, so she broke actual US law, in dealings with US businesses? Okay, that's a bit more reasonable then.
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