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Looks like Canada is about to throw in the towel. They are begging for a face saving exit now.
https://www.thestar.com/business/op...avy-price-for-its-treatment-of-canadians.html
China needs to pay a heavy price for its treatment of Canadians
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Huawei is a linchpin in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s campaign to achieve world leadership in 21st-century technologies by 2025, quite likely at the expense of Silicon Valley.
As it happens, the UN Security Council’s sanctions against Iran were lifted as part of the 2015 pact in which Iran agreed to cease its nuclear-weapons program. But the U.S., at President Donald Trump’s direction, has withdrawn from that pact. The U.S. alone now rejects Security Council Resolution 2231 that lifts the sanctions.
That is, only U.S. interests are served in the arrest of Meng, 46.
Also, it is highly unusual for an OECD country to arrest a top corporate executive of a domestic or foreign enterprise for crimes allegedly committed by an employer. (Personal cupidity is another matter.)
For example, when he was CEO of Halliburton Co. in the 1990s, Dick Cheney was not arrested for the sanction-busting business the oil-services firm did in several countries under U.S. embargo, including Iran.
Neither was the CEO of Toronto Dominion Bank when it and more than a dozen other global banks paid fines for violating America’s sanctions on Iran.
In China’s view, not easily disputed, Canada’s arrest of Meng made Canada a collaborator in America’s decade-long attempt to contain the commercial ambitions of China and of Huawei. Huawei is the world’s only enterprise currently able to build an entire “5G,” or next-generation, wireless network.
As such, Canada was begging for trouble in arresting Meng. Justin Trudeau was given a heads-up a few days before Meng’s arrest, but unwisely chose not to prevent it. The prime minister has said he was respecting his justice ministry’s sole preserve over extradition matters. If that indeed is the case, Trudeau needs a tutorial on realpolitik.
And so, Meng was detained, with predictable, dreadful consequences.
The editor of China’s state-controlled Global Times has said that “Arresting Meng Wanzhou is bringing terrorism to state and business competition.” That is the over-the-top spirit of the Chinese state-controlled media’s relentless Canada-bashing since Dec. 1, which accuses Canada of doing America’s bidding in trying to crush China’s economic ambitions.
How could China see it otherwise, asks Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor and veteran of geo-economic analysis? The U.S. request that Canada arrest Meng “is almost a declaration of war on China’s business community,” Sachs wrote soon after her arrest.
But if America’s transparent efforts to protect laggard U.S. companies from formidable Chinese competition have gone too far, Beijing has once again grossly over-reacted to a slight – as Ottawa should have anticipated.
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Canada also needs to release Meng Wanzhou, not in exchange for the imprisoned Canadians, but because she should not have been arrested in the first place. Our extradition treaty with the U.S. contains abundant loopholes that enable Canada to release her.
https://www.thestar.com/business/op...avy-price-for-its-treatment-of-canadians.html
China needs to pay a heavy price for its treatment of Canadians
...
Huawei is a linchpin in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s campaign to achieve world leadership in 21st-century technologies by 2025, quite likely at the expense of Silicon Valley.
As it happens, the UN Security Council’s sanctions against Iran were lifted as part of the 2015 pact in which Iran agreed to cease its nuclear-weapons program. But the U.S., at President Donald Trump’s direction, has withdrawn from that pact. The U.S. alone now rejects Security Council Resolution 2231 that lifts the sanctions.
That is, only U.S. interests are served in the arrest of Meng, 46.
Also, it is highly unusual for an OECD country to arrest a top corporate executive of a domestic or foreign enterprise for crimes allegedly committed by an employer. (Personal cupidity is another matter.)
For example, when he was CEO of Halliburton Co. in the 1990s, Dick Cheney was not arrested for the sanction-busting business the oil-services firm did in several countries under U.S. embargo, including Iran.
Neither was the CEO of Toronto Dominion Bank when it and more than a dozen other global banks paid fines for violating America’s sanctions on Iran.
In China’s view, not easily disputed, Canada’s arrest of Meng made Canada a collaborator in America’s decade-long attempt to contain the commercial ambitions of China and of Huawei. Huawei is the world’s only enterprise currently able to build an entire “5G,” or next-generation, wireless network.
As such, Canada was begging for trouble in arresting Meng. Justin Trudeau was given a heads-up a few days before Meng’s arrest, but unwisely chose not to prevent it. The prime minister has said he was respecting his justice ministry’s sole preserve over extradition matters. If that indeed is the case, Trudeau needs a tutorial on realpolitik.
And so, Meng was detained, with predictable, dreadful consequences.
The editor of China’s state-controlled Global Times has said that “Arresting Meng Wanzhou is bringing terrorism to state and business competition.” That is the over-the-top spirit of the Chinese state-controlled media’s relentless Canada-bashing since Dec. 1, which accuses Canada of doing America’s bidding in trying to crush China’s economic ambitions.
How could China see it otherwise, asks Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor and veteran of geo-economic analysis? The U.S. request that Canada arrest Meng “is almost a declaration of war on China’s business community,” Sachs wrote soon after her arrest.
But if America’s transparent efforts to protect laggard U.S. companies from formidable Chinese competition have gone too far, Beijing has once again grossly over-reacted to a slight – as Ottawa should have anticipated.
...
Canada also needs to release Meng Wanzhou, not in exchange for the imprisoned Canadians, but because she should not have been arrested in the first place. Our extradition treaty with the U.S. contains abundant loopholes that enable Canada to release her.
