The United States will formally propose to China to extradite Meng Wanzhou

[hiseen]

The United States will formally propose to China to extradite Meng Zhouzhou, and China responds
Shizheng News People's Daily Client 2019-01-22 15:22

On January 22, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a regular press conference and Hua Chunying answered questions from reporters.

Q: The United States has notified Canada that it will officially propose the extradition of Meng Xiazhou. What is your comment?

Hua Chunying: China has repeatedly expressed its solemn position on this incident. Anyone with normal judgment can see that the Meng Xia Zhou case is not an ordinary judicial case. The Canadian side has arbitrarily abused the bilateral extradition treaty between Canada and the United States, which constitutes a serious violation of the safety and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens. We urge the Canadian side to immediately release Ms. Meng Xiazhou to effectively protect her legitimate rights and interests. We also strongly urge the US to immediately correct the mistakes, withdraw the arrest warrant against Meng Xiazhou, and not make a formal extradition request to the Canadian side.

http://news.qq.com/a/20190122/008305.htm

 

[hiseen]

The script is getting more and more exciting, I hope that the United States can edit this script wonderfully.

 

[kankan326]

A asked B to throw C into lion cage. B did as A asked. When B was condemned, he gave us this explanation. " I did all this at A's request. And it is the lion who would decide to eat C or not, not me. So I was nothing wrong here. Totally innocent".

 

[Daniel808]

my tips for US government :
Better take care your shutdown problem first, already reach 33rd day now.
The Longest in History !

Good job, lol

 

[Han Patriot]

Canada is the 52nd state of US. Just give them some pain and pressure, show them there are repercussions.

 

[Feng Leng]

It's time to arrest Americans now

I suggest we start with journalists poking their noses in the wrong places.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

It's time to arrest Americans now

I suggest we start with journalists poking their noses in the wrong places.

Go big! Start with white executives. Three should do as a start.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

The only thing Americans can chest beat these days is picking on poor defenseless women. What else can they do these days? Nada.

 

[Menthol]

It's time to arrest Americans now

I suggest we start with journalists poking their noses in the wrong places.

They are spy!!!

 

[hirobo2]

This a sign Canada already given up. Wants to transfer Meng to US asap so China can apply pressure there...

Let me give Murica a bit of advice, when Meng on your soil u gonna experience 10x the pressure China put on Canada... It simple math u don't use a cannon to kill an ant, but maybe on an eagle.

IMO, the part where 5 Eyes has confusion is they think China will release that death row Canadian drug smuggler in exchange for Meng. That will never happen. China should expedite the execution of that Canadian drug smuggler to show how serious she is with Meng's detention...

 

[kankan326]

It's time to arrest Americans now

I suggest we start with journalists poking their noses in the wrong places.

Military enterprise executives should be targeted first. They sold weapons to Taiwan. Which obviously violated China's law.

 

[hirobo2]

U guys remember when USA initiated those FONOPs a few years back around SCS, and China's response was "there will be eventualities"?

Those eventualities did happen -- USN collided with ships 2X

So here it is again... "Beijing pledges response if Washington asks Ottawa to turn over Huawei CFO"

http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0123/c90000-9540441.html

There will be "eventualities" when Meng gets extradited to US...

 

[powastick]

It just proves that US and Canada and in cahoots. Just right after the negotiation turns sour.

 

[hiseen]

Canada: I will not detain her again.
United States: No, you will leave her.
Canada: Time is too long.
United States:I made a statement to let time freeze.
Canada: emmmmmmmm

China: Continue your performance

 

[Nan Yang]

Is the US about to let Meng Wanzhou go?

• With the Americans yet to make a formal application to a Canadian judge for the extradition of the Huawei executive, there are hopes she may be released to make way for a trade deal

PUBLISHED : Monday, 21 January, 2019, 5:30pm

Alex Lo

Maybe American prosecutors have finally seen the light. In the case of Huawei’s top executive Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, the 60-day deadline for her detention ends on January 30.

However, the American side has yet to file a formal application along with supporting materials to justify her extradition before a Vancouver judge.

Canadian legal experts have observed that such last-minute filings are not unusual and most believe the United States will proceed. Still, one should not exclude the possibility, however slim, that the US will use the deadline as a face-saving measure to let Meng go and the Canadians off the hook.

Vice-Premier Liu He and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the countries’ top trade envoys, are expected to meet in Washington on January 30 and 31.

US President Donald Trump has hinted at a possible breakthrough in the upcoming talks. He has said he might intervene in Meng’s case if it would help to reach a trade deal.

This US president has breached so many of Washington’s norms and institutional practices already.

With political pressure mounting on all sides, he desperately wants another trade deal after a successful one with Mexico and Canada to send Wall Street and global markets soaring again.

Beijing has made it known that freeing Meng is now a political priority. Huawei’s global ambitions, especially its 5G networks, are closely tied to China’s disputes with the US and the West over not only trade but intelligence and security.

Nothing good will come out of Meng’s extradition. Lives – Canadian ones – are at stake. Americans have made their disputes with China personal. As far as China’s ruling and corporate elites are concerned, she is one of their own.

But, what about the rule of law? Well, US sanctions laws and their enforcement are by definition political, especially when directed at non-Americans. Meng is likely to face fraud charges, which would be tied to the breach of sanctions against Iran.

If the US had gone after the executives of two dozen banks and companies since 2010 found to have breached sanctions against Iran or North Korea, fraud charges would have been laid, too.

Alas, US prosecutors never did, preferring to impose company fines instead. Meng proves to be the exception, as Washington goes about undermining her company.

Let’s hope Americans will stop this escalation before it goes out of hand.


This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Is the US about to let Meng Wanzhou go?


A face saving option for US ?