Britain’s high court on Friday blocked Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s bid to access British bank HSBC’s internal documents relating to U.S. fraud allegations against its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. Meng, 49, was arrested by Canadian police on a U.S. warrant in December 2018 while on a layover in Vancouver, bound for Mexico. The United…
Huawei Canada VP Claims Meng Wanzhou Innocent, Refuses to Condemn China’s Detention of ‘Two Michaels’
Huawei Canada’s senior official insisted the company’s CFO Meng Wanzhou has “done nothing wrong,” and refused to condemn China’s arbitrary detention of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Morgan Elliott, Huawei Canada’s vice president of government affairs, repeated the claim of Meng’s innocence, while dodging questions on whether the company views her arrest to be morally equivalent to China’s…
UK Backs Canadian Initiative Against State-Sponsored Arbitrary Detention
February 15, 2021
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Britain announced on Monday that it had joined a Canadian-led initiative to condemn and deter state-sponsored arbitrary detention of foreign nationals for political purposes. By joining the initiative, the UK government is “doing more to safeguard the rights of British people abroad,” the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) said in a press release. The…
Huawei Seeks to Access HSBC Files in Bid to Prevent Meng Wanzhou Extradition
Chinese telecom giant Huawei has started legal action in the UK seeking access to internal documents of British-based bank HSBC, in a bid to prevent the extradition of its senior executive Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the United States. Meng, 48, was arrested by Canadian police on a U.S. warrant in December 2018 while on…
Tory Immigration Critic Blasts Feds for Granting Travel Exemptions to Meng Wanzhou’s Family to Visit Canada
Conservative immigration critic Raquel Dancho has lashed out over the government’s decision to grant travel exemptions to Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s family to visit her in Vancouver, when Canadians are being told to avoid all non-essential travel. “This is an insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit…
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Applies for Change to Bail Terms
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou has applied for changes to her bail conditions and a hearing will be heard on Jan. 12 and 13. The Canadian Department of Justice confirmed the application in a statement, adding that the hearing will be heard by Justice William Ehrcke, the same judge who set the current bail…
Germany’s UN Envoy Calls for Release of Kovrig and Spavor; China Fires Back
Germany’s envoy to the United Nations (U.N), during his last scheduled U.N. Security Council meeting, called on Beijing to release Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor for Christmas, prompting a harsh rebuke from China’s deputy U.N. envoy in response. “Let me end my tenure in the Security Council by appealing to my Chinese colleagues to…
Canada Has ‘Significant’ Concerns About China: Defence Minister
OTTAWA—Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says Canada and its allies have significant concerns about China, starting with its unpredictability, its refusal to play by the rules, and its expanding footprint around the world Sajjan’s comments come as the Canadian Armed Forces has become increasingly focused on what is described as the next great power competition between…
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