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 controversial detention of Kovrig and Spavor, known as “the two Michaels,” during an interview with Global News’ Mercedes Stephenson on Feb. 14. Elliott also gave contradictory responses about the telecom giant’s involvement in the Chinese regime’s surveillance and control of ethnic minorities within its territories. ‘We Want Everyone Home’ Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in December 2018 at the Vancouver International Airport at the request of the U.S. authorities to have her extradited to stand trial in an American court. Meng is charged with …
Huawei Canada VP Claims Meng Wanzhou Innocent, Refuses to Condemn China’s Detention of ‘Two Michaels’
February 16, 2021
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